browser wowser

For the past few or so months I Have had to pay $4.99 a month to hear music albums w/ a little bit of radio functionality courtesy of Rdio.  Which was fine for a couple or so months, except albums are not normally the kind of thing someone such as myself would seek out w/o having any real reason to.  Until I got accustomed to having and using the internet, album listens were typically something I would experience after being propelled to buy the album via hearing one or two songs from it on the radio.  So, unless the album is something I'm already at least somewhat familiar with, i.e.: one of the dozens of worthwhile albums I used to own but sold b/c I "needed" the $ or an album by a band who had made one of those albums, then it's not something I will seek out.  Amazon has recommendations for albums, but most of them suck.  Rdio has recommendations too, very seldom updated, and most of them suck too.  So, many times I end up with absolutely nothing to listen to, except some artist mix, which is usually a ton of b.s., b/c there's no "artist" who consistently makes worthwhile music.
  But things got REAL hairy on Mar 1, when, after a few days of account expiration, I re-newed my Rdio subscription and it couldn't even playback music that I had paid $4.99 to hear.
  So, out of desperation, I uninstalled Google Chrome, "The fastest browser"...and since I can't get IE off my computer, I tried that, and if it weren't for its constant freezing, I would have been fine w/ it. But it couldn't go more than half an hour w/o freezing up for several minutes.
  So I am now using Opera.  Wow.  I can now listen to Pandora!!!!  I always loved Pandora.  I couldn't listen to it b/c Chrome would not work w/ it, at least not on a steady basis; the songs would chip and chop, and then sometimes they would skip after having only plaid only a few seconds if that, and of course if the stuttering and sputtering had kept up, I'd be stuck on some song, which i may or may not like, and if i did like it, that's not necessarily to say I'd be interested in hearing it at that moment.

So yeah.  I had Opera on my computer a while back, a couple years ago?  idk, but it wasn't real compatable with a lot of web sites.  Aside from Google websites like the one I'm at now, gmail, and etc., most of where I go has no problem with Opera or v/v.

Awesome-ness, at last!

On the downside, I found a TV a week or so ago that seemed like it could run off of battery(s), but it needs a car battery, which means I have to own a car to watch TV, and if I don't, I need electricity.  If I don't have electricity, I'm sure as heck not going to own a car, which means, as far as I can tell, TV (movies) will be a no-go once the economy falls out from the federal gov't's deficit.