[nvda] Re: OT: login on pages of the European Commission crashes IE

aggreed ie is quite stable for the most part.
firefox does work with jaws but I have a rather old version, v6 to be presise.
I havn't had occation to use that thing.
At 10:45 a.m. 23/09/2008, you wrote:
>You are generalizing from your experience.  I have found IE6 to be very 
>stable.  On some web sites, it doesn't work quickly with screen-readers, 
>evidently because of a code conflict between the MSAA code of the 
>screen-reader and the page but it seldom crashes here.  I generally use it, 
>though on pages where the slowness problem exists, I use Firefox.  However, I 
>did find one site, the Shoutcast site, where Firefox is almost unuseable with 
>JAWS.  I don't recall if I tested it with Window-eyes.  I haven't used IE7 but 
>if it is as bad as you claim in general and not just in your experience, you'd 
>have seen unending complaints since it came out.  I have seen nothing out of 
>the ordinary in terms of negative comments and complaints.
>
>Gene
>----- Original Message ----- From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 2:23 PM
>Subject: [nvda] Re: OT: login on pages of the European Commission crashes IE
>
>
>>ie is quite finicky.
>>I use ie6 because this is xp, wouldn't go any higher.
>>Although the web is changing.
>>ie will work and then it won't and then it will.
>>The only good news is that I can actually run my life without having to go 
>>online that much for now.
>>At 06:56 a.m. 23/09/2008, you wrote:
>>>I assume its been tried with Firefax, as IE crashes at the slightest poke in 
>>>the ribs in my experience on some sites.
>>>Brian
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>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Nermin" <voy44@xxxxxxxx>
>>>To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:42 PM
>>>Subject: [nvda] OT: login on pages of the European Commission crashes IE
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi all, as this is a bit off topic, please direct any comments or 
>>>>suggestions to voy44@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>A friend has problems on many EU institution websites.
>>>>Using IE7 and JAWS or NVDA, she tries to input her data, name and password, 
>>>>and upon that, IE crashes, giving the standard error reporting message "IE 
>>>>has detected a problem and needs to be closed.".
>>>>It seems to affect both JAWS and NVDA, I do not know whether she tried it 
>>>>without any speech loaded and a sighted person watching the screen.
>>>>She tried many things, from enabling and disabling coockies, playing around 
>>>>with internet zone security settings, but nothing so far.
>>>>I know this sounds rather vague, but I cannot give out any address to try 
>>>>this, since this would require disclosing user name and password, sorry for 
>>>>that.
>>>>Is there anything one might try to solve this annoiing problem?
>>>>FF 3 is quite new to her, and she doesn't feel very comfortable using it.
>>>>
>>>>Best regards,
>>>>Nermin
>>>>
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