Re: JFW questions, any suggestions?

  • From: "tony Santiago" <t_santiago@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:25:45 -0400

I don't know about the other 2 problems, but about getting stuck on a web
page, I've experienced the jsame thing since upgrading to 5.1. What I do is
if I hit alt-left arrow, and the page is stuck, I update the screen with
insert-escape. Works every time. HTH.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicholas Giudice" <giudice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: JFW questions, any suggestions?


> Hi list,
> I have looked, albeit not exhaustively, at recent messages and these
> questions have not been addressed. My apologies in advance if these
matters
> have already been discussed.
> I  have tried upgrading jaws 3 times since v5.0062 and each time the
> problems seem to increase for me. V6.0 has been the most buggy and the
> following 3 issues are the most frustrating.
> 1. Jaws reliably crashes IE when I go to the website of my online broker:
> http://www.optionsxpress.com/
> I get the error: "Internet explorer has experienced a problem and needs to
> shut down." If I don't dismiss the error message immediately, Jaws becomes
> very unstable and crashes the computer. This reliably happens on 3
> computers, all running xp Pro. If I shut down v6.0 and start v5.0062
before
> entering the URL, everything is fine. Given that my accounts are access
> through this website and that, in my opinion, it is the best online
> brokerage for derivative trading, I am not willing to simply use another
> online trading service. Does anybody have an idea of what might be
> happening and does this URL crash IE with jaws v6.0 on your computer? The
> next 2 problems are less reliable, e.g. they don't occur every time with
> each of the computers, which makes it harder to diagnose but they seem to
> always happen on my laptop under v6.0.
> 2. Many webpages become "stuck," so I cannot go back with the alt+left
> arrow or enter another URL in the address bar. Once again, if I unload 6.0
> and start up 5.0062, the problem disappears.
> 3. The find command in IE using 6.0 doesn't seem to work correctly. When I
> search for something, e.g. the word "description" on an Ebay product
> webpage, it claims there are no instances of this word on the page. But,
> the word is in fact there and searched for and found without problem by
> v5.0062. What gives?
>
> If anybody can suggest anything I can try in terms of settings or other
> tweaks, I would be appreciative. I would like to use some of the features
> of the latest JFW product, and it seems silly that I need to continually
> use a version of the program that is 3 or more iterations older than the
> current version but it is the only thing that I have found to work.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nick
>
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