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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Yes. You are as fast as your connection to the Internet, and the site you are visiting.
Firefox 57 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 quate 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. Proximnate case is that I can get a FIOS deal with everything I have now for half what Spectrum is currently charging. Icing on teh cake is that FIOS is offering gigabit connection speed, and symmetrical at that.
I believe there's a CSS tweak that offers seperate stop/refresh buttons, but it must be applied in UserChrome.css in the profile folder.
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:" entries, so I dropped them, but the rest works fine.
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Dennis
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My i7 still handles my workload - concurrent recording, ripping, Video ReDo editing, huge Excel macros that can take 10-15 minutes to run, and demanding games like Skyrim (3GB video card with dual 24" monitors). I've never before had a 6+ year old system that could still handle everything, though I would add RAM if I could. And bluetooth and more USB3 ports would be nice...
FWIW FVD has tabs and save/restore dials - I keep it synced with a i3 laptop...