{"id":2968,"date":"2016-08-25T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2016-08-26T07:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T11:31:36","slug":"thursday-25-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/08\/25\/thursday-25-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 25 August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:15 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;ve about decided to give up on Firefox. With every release, it becomes buggier and slower, as well as taking more and more RAM and CPU. I&#8217;m already running Opera Mobile on my Fire, and I have the full Opera installed on my Linux desktop system. I often have to resort to it when Firefox just doesn&#8217;t work on a particular site. It&#8217;s much faster than Firefox 48.0 (48.0!), and it seems a lot less buggy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The final straw came yesterday when I was trying to print ten postage labels for kits. The USPS Click-N-Ship website was moving slower than the proverbial molasses in January. I got tired of sitting watching a spinner for literally a minute every time I clicked to a new page. I finally bagged it and got Opera setup with my USPS account information. Response time dropped from a minute\/page to a fraction of a second.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">There&#8217;s a guy out in the yard right now marking the underground electric cable. The Internet cable guy marked that yesterday. If we do decide to put a garden plot out on that side of the property, I wanted to make sure to stay far away from buried cables.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Barbara is building more science kits at the moment. Later today, we&#8217;ll be labeling and filling bottles for still more.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:15 &#8211; I&#8217;ve about decided to give up on Firefox. With every release, it becomes buggier and slower, as well as taking more and more RAM and CPU. I&#8217;m already running Opera Mobile on my Fire, and I have the full Opera installed on my Linux desktop system. I often have to resort to it when Firefox just doesn&#8217;t work on a particular site. It&#8217;s much faster than Firefox 48.0 (48.0!), and it seems a lot less buggy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/08\/25\/thursday-25-april-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 25 August 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}