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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh
I'm on an ancient Core i7 system, maxed out at 16GB. But my bottleneck is probably my 25-ish mbps DSL. Especially since I have Playlater recordings soaking up the meager bandwidth most of the time
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Yes. You are as fast as your connection to the Internet, and the site you are visiting.
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is faster, but whether you see the benefit is determined by an assortment of factors, like your connection speed.
My current box is Win10 Pro on a 3.1-3.4ghz quad-core i5-2400 CPU, with 8GB RAM and Intel HD 2000 graphics. Unlike my prior Xeon based system, Win10 actually sees/uses all four cores of the i5. Win1o and applications run off an SSD. Performance is quite acceptable, thank you. RAM can be expanded to 32GB, but no hurry - I don't normally see more than 4GB in actual use.
I had DSL way back when, and would have killed for 25mbps when I had it. The current connection is a 100mbps cable modem. FIOS is finally available in my neighborhood, and I'm looking at switching when it's available were I am. Proximate cause is that I can get a FIOS deal with everything I have now for half what Spectrum is currently charging. Icing on the cake is that FIOS is offering gigabit connection speed, and symmetrical at that.
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I'll have to look for that paywall addon. When I had separate stop/refresh buttons I could usually bypass with 2 or 3 tries.
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I believe there's a CSS tweak that offers separate stop/refresh buttons, but it must be applied in UserChrome.css in the profile folder.
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I've been happy with FVD Speed Dial but haven't tried others...
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I looked at it. The advantage to the Speed dial variant I used was a tabbed interface, with multiple pages of dials. That was a good match to how I worked. Group Speed Dial shares that, and can import saved settings from Del Rio's Speed Dial. It had problems with various of the Firefox "about
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Dennis