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Why I made the announcement that I am trying out a new browser.. Well I used to use the Chrome browser until it shit the bed.. Then I used...  Chrome again, I'm a gluten for punishment.. But while using Chrome I also had Firefox and would use it when I wanted a more stable browser, mostly for weather radar and web cams on sights that have weather chasers, it seemed like Firefox was the better of the two.. And soon I would migrate entirely to Firefox and not only stopped using the Chrome browser, I deleted it, although that happened just after this past Christmas season.. Before the end of 2014.. I also deleted Oprah or Opra .. Whatever it was called.. Oprah was an ok browser, and for what little time I used the tablet computer it was the go to browser on the tablet.. Some seem to work better on the tablet and not at all on the computer.. So now after the past month of continuous troubles with Firefox I decided getting a new browser or two is in order.. Let's just get... Well get what you know.. I loaded up Avante, Maxthon, as well as a few I was not wanting to try which included Chromium, the developer version of Chrome, which I have had but wasn't happy with EITHER version.. then there was a new browser, Pale Moon.. Hu, what's this pale moon browser about??  Well it works along the same lines as Firefox, so that runs up a red flag, or at the very least a yellow one.. CAUTION-this is the third version of the Firefox browser (having Firefox and Firefox developer, was Aurora)  And so with that came the awe shit no feeling..  But as I was downloading Pale Moon I read the reviews on it and one of them said he uses a browser called Mantra.. I had never heard of Mantra.. Alright I'll give it a go.. Downloaded it and ran the setup and started it.. Very impressive.. For starters it has the more important apps in a new speed dial setup.. Impressive there and I kicked the tires for a while, then went back to the old Firefox browser to do my early browsing then after this session I will try to evaluate the browser even more.. I'd just like a browser that will stop stopping.. The early day browsing seems to include up to twenty or so shut downs.. the browser locks up and I shut it down with the task manager.. Firefox now has a plugin container which I guess means it has everything that needs to be kickstarted to make the browser work but what it really seems to do is slow the browser down and even crash it..  Lets say the browser is using around 500,000k there are times when the plugin container can equal or even be higher in usage..  This has just been the way Firefox has been going the past week or two.. What  I thought was  a new better way to go about it is now even worse than before.. Don't get me wrong, I don't want a second browser to use when Firefox isn't working, I want a full replacement.. And so I will be working on that over the coming weeks...


YAWN.. interesting way to be woken (waked.. er awakened) up today... Just before six I hear something on the scanner.. Roll over accident out south of Chappell and they send the fire department and rescue and all that.. And then I hear the coms for Wheatbelt, live powerlines involved, the call for flight for life.. I hear all of this, and that might seem like..Well so what.. This is the first time in three years (or more) that I could hear all of the action, everything from the trucks going out and communicating with Ogalalla to .. on site and everything, flight for life come enroute to the crash site.. you know, the whole kitten caboodle and.. Usually I hear the page for rescue and FD and maybe the call for FFL but this was the whole thing.. So what happened for me to hear it all?? They switched to full on analog... That's right they all have switched from the bestest there is in tech com (digital) to the old analog.. Suddenly my scanner is relevant again.. When I bought the scanner I only looked at like three models and the digital one was only slightly interesting mostly because I thought living in the sticks here in Nebraska I thought we would never see digital out here, mostly because.. Well it's such a vast area.. But sure enough within that very first year I started losing channels left and right to digital encoding making hearing them with the scanner I got impossible.. What a stupid idiot I felt like, but I also thought I would eventually end the hobby of listening to this radio which my older brother started me on way back.. Way way back when radios were still made of stone.. Well not quite that far back.. I had a radio he got from a garage sale or something, gave me it, I listened to it, then got another that was a 16 channel beast.. Then a few years later got a 50 channel one.. The fifty channel one had  a lockout mode as well the 16 channel one did as well, but to lock anything out was really not very smart unless it chirped.. Then lock out and check again in a few hours and unlock it.. The fifty channel one might have a channel or two locked out for a while, but could be controlled easily.. The latest scanner has a thousand channels, so when they started to develop chirps or that digital garble I would hunt the channel down and lock it out.. With over a thousand channels on the scanner losing one here and there wasn't a big deal, and I wouldn't check to see if it was back on.. But now with the local fire department getting analog I might check some channels I lost during the digital revolution as it were..  Might be worth a look see.. Also this scanner has a full readout, which is to say the older radios had just the frequency numbers on them, then I would write the frequency and what that corresponded to.. This radio I have had for the past five or so years has all that on the screen on the radio.. So the number shows and what it corresponds to..  And because of the sheer size of the number of channels, it can be programmed by computer.. Another huge plus.. 

Badge Henry

(P,S. the guy who they rescued from the rollover accident was under the pickup.. They got him out and he had difficulty moving his extremedies but that might have been more caused by the cooler weather, and having a truck on top of you for a little while.. But that was the most interesting listen as I heard every little detain including the electric company seeming to be reluctant to get their asses out there.. Thankfully we aren't on their delivery..)