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Ok, that matches what I see here. Thanks for double-checking.

On a "live" system, I would recommend removing ALL "metro apps" - even if you "like" them (find a 3rd party equivalent instead!) Here's an example but google/bing/duck for a learning-read - https://www.maketecheasier.com/uninstall-pre-installed-apps-windows-10/ But I would go one step further and axe them before they are even installed in the first place. You will need to learn how to use NTLite and WinReducer EX 100. Again, google/bing/duck to learn more.

To be as polite as possible, I cite an excerpt -- Although shocking that a single application on your machine can consume so many of your system resources, the complaint is relatively misguided, born in part by rose-tinted visions of the way the internet used to work in the olden days and by a fundamental misunderstanding of the way RAM is distributed and used within a computer. https://www.poweradmin.com/blog/why-your-internet-browser-is-such-a-ram-hog/ https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3r7xnc/eli5_why_do_browsers_take_up_so_much_ram/ https://www.howtogeek.com/334594/stop-complaining-that-your-browser-uses-lots-of-ram-its-a-good-thing/ Divide those tabs among two or three browsers, use one during the day for real-time market news, close it at the end of the business day, bookmark or speed-dial the tabs you don't even look at for weeks, et cetera. If you can't take the advice of closing unused tabs and stop "Page Parking", I really got nothing more for you. I feel that this discusson has "gone full circle" so best of luck to you, I got nothing more.

Truthfully, you have to experiment and find the mix that is right for you. I use MVPS's HOSTS file but tend to only update it once a year. The tabs you don't look at for weeks at a time - STOP KEEPING THEM OPEN. Not to go ALL CAPS on you, but that solution seems far FAR too obvious and you really do need to "let go" and close those tabs If you don't like bookmarks, then use a "speed dial" addon or something of the like. Or just copy-paste the URL into a .txt file - but why bury yourself with the performance-cripple of keeping them open for weeks at a time? Some difficulties in life we simply bring upon ourselves - that, my friend, I suggest is one of them Don't like pasting the URL from a .txt file? Then use a 3rd Party program like TyperTask and assign a keyboard shortcut. I personally never open any of my financial sites, be they banking or investing, during a "browse session" and I clear cache and history at every browser-close. And for any real time charts, I keep those running in a separate browser altogether - I use BNavigator for that type of stuff, don't care if the rest of BNavigator doesn't fit the rest of my needs, it fits for that so I use it for that. You really are better off getting rid of the "Page Parking" obsession (a real term) and learn to truly multi-task. "Parking" on a page for weeks? Then complaining that your browser "leaks"? Really? But anywhoo...

v13 build 2206 Russian Repack is not making this connection at every launch. I will patiently wait for your v13 tutorial before making any changes with my config.

I'm aware of that part. I was curious as to WHY you did that replacement --> hexadecimal code "33 00 36 00 30" has to be replaced by something like this "2e 00 2e 00 2e" What was occuring BEFORE this replacement that is no longer occuring AFTER this replacement?

I will have to wait for others "like you" to chime in, I'm afraid. I personally do not condone the practice / habit of the (so-called) "need" for 25 to 50 tabs being open 24/7. I could direct you to link after link and article after article on "why" I don't condone the practice - but in reality, we all have different "needs" for our computer and "to each their own", as the saying goes. I parallel keeping so many tabs open is like going to sleep at night with the front door unlocked - but again, "to each their own". In the world of "social media", all 25 to 50 of those tabs are very likely "sharing" ONE cookie and every tab knows what the other tab is doing - I'm exaggerating slightly, but it's called Cross Site Request Forgery and it relies solely on session-cookies. I'm no security expert, not pretending to be, nor a conspiracy theorist, but keeping that many "sessions" open all at the same time is not something I would recommend.

Not another one of "those people"... But I digress... I suspect you are better off finding out WHICH ONE of those 25 to 50 tabs is causing your problem and tweak that page's javascript. Or, perhaps better yet, find a way to "live with" NOT keeping that problematic page open 24/7. Not sure how much help that really is, but at least it is "something" until others come along

I wouldn't confuse "fetching an image" with "telemetry". And nor should people (you don't, btw) that "volunteer" to use such things as "prediction services" and the like consider that as "telemetry". I use v13 build 2206 of the Russian Repack with several of the changes you have cited above. Could you detail this one more? --> hexadecimal code "33 00 36 00 30" has to be replaced by something like this "2e 00 2e 00 2e" And do you plan on doing your analysis with v13?

Oh trust me, I am aware! I have friends, familiy, coworkers, and neighbors that biaatch and moan ALL THE TIME about gas prices - and I find it entirely irksome considering I get 6 weeks, and then some, to ONE tank of gas. They'll watch gas prices "like a Hawk" and will leave work an hour early just to make sure they fill up before "gas prices are about to jump". They install "phone apps" to tell them when prices are about to jump and which local gas station will be the last to raise prices. They'll drive an extra 4 miles OUT OF THEIR WAY (8 miles round trip) in a beat up ol' ride getting 18 mpg city "with the wind at their back" to save $0.08 per gallon when gas prices are only $3.00 per gallon and their tank is 16 gallon capacity. ie, if they were running on FUMES and had to buy AN ENTIRE TANK of 16 gallons, they spent $1.33 to drive OUT OF THEIR WAY to save $1.28 -- they spent an extra $0.05 but in their mind they "saved" !!! And you know d@mn well they did this NOT for an ENTIRE TANK so they were "upside down" by much MUCH more than $0.05. But it doesn't matter how many times you "do the math" for them, they continue this INSANITY and continue to FALSELY think that they "saved".

My nLite Services are currently as follows - ;# Services # Alerter Application Layer Gateway Beep Driver Distributed Link Tracking Client DNS Client Error Reporting Fax Service Indexing Service Messenger Remote Registry Route Listening Service RPC Locator Secondary Logon Service Advertising Protocol Simple TCP/IP Services System Restore Service TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Telnet My list of Services via My Computer -> Manage -> Computer Management -> Services does not list QoS RSVP, Quality of Service (QoS), or Text Services Framework so I may have removed those elsewhere with nLite. I do list WebClient and it is listed as Status = Started and Startup Type = Automatic -- I have not tried disabling the WebCient service.

Okay, that makes sense. That puts you right around $7.51 US Dollars per US Gallon. I'm showing average annual salary in Finland at 56,300 EUR per year which is $68,650 US Dollars per year. For the Midwest area of the US that I am located, the average annual salary is $68,876 US Dollars per year - so you could say we are basically EQUAL. The average gas price here is $2.93 US Dollars per US Gallon. That tells me TWO things - 1) I'll agree that you are paying too much, and 2) My gas prices SHOULD BE DOUBLED

2€ is roughly $2.44 US Dollars. 1 liter is 0.264 US gallons. That's basically $9.24 US Dollars per US gallon. That can't be right because according to here - https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/Europe/ - the Netherlands tops the list at $8.24 US Dollars per US gallon. Where Spain through France is only a $6.22 to $7.08 range. You can't be paying 2€ - but I guess you did say "near" (which can mean 50 cents here in the US, roughly 0.41€).

I have often proposed a solution that I believe very STRONGLY WILL work. The KEY is consumption, CONSUMPTION, CONSUMPTION !!! And how do we CURB it? I personally think there is an EASY solution. According to https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/ - the National Average gas price (using the USA as a reference) is $3.035 as of 5/26/21. The solution - DOUBLE IT !!! People won't drive so much if the price were DOUBLED !!! You'll think twice about driving to SIX different grocery stores in ONE day when you CAN get everything at ONE, albeit not your favorite "brand" or whatnot. Drop-dead serious, DOUBLE IT !!! I have a neighbor that drives a Prius (his 3rd one in roughly 11 years). He's a pretentious prick and I lived here for about two years before a different neighbor finally explained why this prick would snub his nose at me every time I drove by. It was because his Prius-persona cared very little for the 1996 Jeep Cherokee Country I was driving at the time and its 15 mpg city / 21 mpg highway. So I literally backed him into a corner and lied to him with him not knowing I knew his thoughts about my Jeep, I pretended to be interested in buying a Prius and asked about his fuel economy. His face lit up like it was the Fourth of July (another USA reference, as far as that goes). I asked, "How often do you have to fill up?" He was PROUD to proclaim that he only fills up once a week. That is when I "let him have it" and informed him that I work from a home office and ONE tank of gas in my "cheep Jeep" lasts me SIX WEEKS and I can fairly easily stretch it to TWO MONTHS !!! The expression on his face was a true "Kodak Moment". He now at least "smiles and waives" when I drive by instead of snubbing his nose at me. Long story short, there is a "psychological effect" to driving a vehicle that gets 50 miles to the gallon - YOU DRIVE MORE BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN UNCONSCIOUS FEELING THAT YOU ARE SAVING THE PLANET. Where in REALITY you very well may be CONSUMING MORE and you just can't put 1 and 2 together to SEE IT.

True on the Prius verus the Volvo 240. But the same is also true for Prius versus a Jeep Wrangler or even a Volkswagen Beetle. ie, the longevity of the 240 and the Wrangler/Beetle relative to the Prius is a discussion about "brand loyalty" and really has nothing to do with "sustainability" &/or "quality". I've owned several Jeeps over the years, I always nicknamed them "cheep Jeep" because the doors are 'paper thin' and interior quality is so "cheep" that you can keep the doors off and NOT CARE if the interior gets RAINED ON. But I assure you, even though a Jeep is "cheep" as far as quality is concerned, you have to spend EXTRA for them because of HIGH DEMAND when it comes to the Law of Supply and Demand and the Price Elasticity of Demand.

Agree "for the most part". It has worked for me but I never have more than SIX add-ons (NONE of which are of the Web Extension variety). I'm actually not a fan of St52 or St55 (so for that I will have to concede to "will have to take your word for it") and have basically only used this for Mypal and New Moon - but it has ALWAYS worked. My "base" is Mypal v27.9.4 and that profile seems to ALWAYS be "backwards compatible" with EVERYTHING ELSE. So apologies for any mis-information.

Not sure if this will help or not but I know i've used this method in the past for those types of issues. I only use "portable" browsers and I've had success, in your case, of using a portable Firefox 52.9, installing the add-on, then over-writing the portable's "bin" folder with the "bin" for Serpent 52 or 55. TONS of my addons are labeled as "not compatible" according to Serpent 52 or 55 but they WORK anyway, just has the "not compatible" message in the addons page.

Religion does not qualify for "within reason" in my book. But if if does in yours, then I won't thump a Bible at you for your discourse.

I personally disagree with this sentiment. We are a like-minded community with a common interest. We are allowed to stray every once in a while, who freakin' cares, go off-topic AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE as far as I'm concerned. Within reason, of course, let's not throw politics in the mix, so to speak, but come on, who freakin' cares about so-called off-topic setting in once in a while! I actually sometimes feel like I'm talking to a Holy Roller thumping his Bible at me whenver somebody feels they have to proclaim such an "apology" for going "off-topic". But I digress... And, um, "apolgies for going off-topic"...

Awesome! Thanks. Will try later this week as I would opt to rebuild my profile at the same time.

Yes! It is actually quite EASY to inoculate the telemetry in 360Chrome! It is a huge SHAME that so many people would rather just sit on the sidelines and compain about the telemetry as opposed to taking TINY steps to get rid of it.

Don't get me started on that one! I believe in personal accountability and you CAN RETIRE if you live your life properly! Don't buy a home that takes you thirty years to pay off (I paid off mine in THREE! - the bank pre-approved me for a $350,000 mortgage, I bought a $67,000 three-bedroom one-bath while driving a paid-off 18yr old car rusting out from under me). Don't live in vain so much so that you trade cars in every three to four years because you want to be seen in something "new". Don't buy a brand new vehicle and put yourself under a 6-year auto loan at the age of 62 then complain that you can't retire at 64 because Social Security won't pay for your auto loan and your 30-year mortgage. Don't complain at 64 that you "can't live off of Social Security" when you lived life in such a manner that you are still paying for a 30-year mortgage when you bought your house 50 years ago. Don't complain at 64 that the Social Security cost-of-living adjustment was 1.30% when the inflation rate is 1.25%. Or that two years before the COLA was 2.80% when the inflation rate was 2.49%. That is UPSIDE DOWN and WILL BE the reason why the NEXT GENERATION has no Social Security because you broke the bank.

I've worked third-tier auto industry for close to 27 years, domestic and import hybrids, currently transitioning to electric over hybrid. It's a lengthy debate and people always have "their side" and can't be talked out no matter what "science" or "math" has to say. The rule of thumb given to me by Engineers much higher and smarter than I has always been a 25/35 Rule of Thumb. The way they describe it is that if you have a vehicle getting 25 mpg and you are car-shopping for something that gets 35 mpg, YOU ARE BETTER OFF WITH THE 25 MPG! Twenty Five is better than thirty five! It's more convoluted than simply looking at depreciation value, resale value, upkeep costs, et cetera. Look at it this way, you "impact" the environment to MANUFACTURE a new car. And you "impact" the environment to take a twenty year old car getting 25 to 30 miles to the gallon and sending it to the junk yard. Think "fleet fuel efficiency" - you just discarded a car getting 25 to 30 when "fleet average" is only 24.9 (2019 EPA data, a mere 5.6mpg increase over 15 years of data). So you put something in the trash only for it to be "replaced", on average (Engineers use the term "aggregate"), with something with a LOWER fuel efficiency. This is old but it's also the research our Engineers still reference - in 2004, Toyota reported that 28% of an automobiles entire life cycle emissions are all generated by the manufacture and transport to the dealership. Let me put that this way, I have a neighbor that has owned three Toyota Prius's in the last 11 years. With 28% of an entire life cycle of emissions being generated BEFORE he even visited the dealership for his trade-in, he has impacted the environment much more adversely than I have! And I drive a Jeep that only gets 18 city and 24 highway. But I also live 0.7 miles from the office, work from home on most days, and get SIX WEEKS plus on ONE TANK of gas.

After some off-and-on research, I've been able to create my own userscript for my bill-pay website I ended up opting for today + 3. // ==UserScript== // @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js // @grant GM_addStyle // ==/UserScript== var theDate = new Date(); var myNewDate = new Date(theDate); myNewDate.setDate(myNewDate.getDate()+3); var dd = String(myNewDate.getDate()).padStart(2, '0'); var mm = String(myNewDate.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, '0'); var yyyy = myNewDate.getFullYear(); myNewDateFormatted = mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yyyy; $("<CSS_SELECTOR_FOR_DATE_FIELD_YOU_ARE_TARGETING").val (myNewDateFormatted);

My second car when I was a teenager was a 1984 Plymouth Horizon (with a Rockford Fosgate Punch 150 and three 15" Pyle sub-woofers). It was rated at 28 mpg city and 45 mpg highway. I still have my log sheets where I averaged 42 mpg combined city-and-highway (mainly because I drove to a private high school 35 minutes away). FORTY TWO MILES PER GALLON! And that was in 1990 driving a car that didn't even have fuel injectors. Holley 2-barrel single-overhead-cam carbureted 4-cylinder 2.2L engine with 5-speed manual transmission running on regular gasoline. A 1984 Toyota Camry with a 4-cylinder 2.0L manual 5-speed was rated 23 city and 29 highway. The Toyota Prius entered the scenes in 1997 but was not sold here in the US until September 2000 for the 2001 model year. The 2001 Prius was rated 52 city and 45 highway while the 2001 Camry was rated 24 city and 33 highway. Twenty years later, the 2021 Prius is rated 58 city and 53 highway while the 2021 Camry is rated 28 city and 39 highway with the Hybrid SE at 44 city and 47 highway. The base price for a brand new '84 Horizon back in the day was $5,956 when the Wage Index was $16,135.07. ie, you could buy a brand new car in '84 that averaged 42 mpg for 36.9% of your annual income. The 2021 Camry Hybrid SE base price is $28,293 (and the non-hybrid only saves $183 on base price!) and the median household income is $42,228. ie, 67.0% of your annual income. Put me in the "we were better off in 1984" camp