Re: Some questions about Firefox

  • From: "JM Casey" <crystallogic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:46:23 -0500

I think it can, yes.

Thanks for the tips.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Yadiel Sotomayor 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:42 PM
  Subject: Re: Some questions about Firefox


  No unwanted scripts huh? Now that sounds promising. Can it stop let's say, 
quicktime from loading automatically when I enter a website? Some websites when 
quicktime loads turn into hell. They are super slow to work. Sometimes, they 
stop working at all, or maybe that is jaws. Either way, I hate when that 
happens. On IE9 (not on IE8, again, just a browser) I have the option to allow 
quicktime to run only on that website and only for that session and if it turns 
into maple sirup, I can just close the tab and re-open it again and don't allow 
quicktime to run. On firefox on the other hand, it loads quicktime 
automatically and when it ask you you must select if to activate it permently 
or not at all. 




  From: JM Casey 
  Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 10:12 PM
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Subject: Re: Some questions about Firefox


  Hey.

  Thanks for the response. Pretty horrible that your university's website is 
broken and won't work on a real browser, but what can you do? I'm not 
interested in IE 9 and, as you imply, it won't work with my OS anyway. Thanks 
for the FIrefox tips; that all seems very promising. By the way, noscript is an 
add-on that blocks unwanted scripts, pop-ups and so on. It works beautifully on 
my sighted friend's computer.

  Anyone else?


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Yadiel Sotomayor 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:49 PM
    Subject: Re: Some questions about Firefox


    The latest version of firefox is 3.6.12. There's a 4.0 in beta form, but 
haven't tried it since I don't know if the add-on I have on firefox will work 
on it yet. In my opinion, is a lot better than IE8 will ever be. IE9 is a whole 
nother matter, but since you said you have XP, I won't go into details.

    Firefox 3.6.12 works beautifully with jaws. I use it to navigate facebook 
and a whole of "fancy" sites like you mentioned. No problems at all. Firefox 
used to crash around once a couple of weeks on XP, but since I upgraded to win 
7, I had no problems.


    I don't like add-ons. But I have one that any blind person shouldn't be 
without. It is called websome. It solves capchas without sighted assistance. 
You just press a keystroke and it will do the rest. When it is done, it will 
say, "capcha contents has been added to the clipboard". You just paste whatever 
websome gave you on the editbox and 99.9 percent of the time the capcha is 
correct.

    I really like firefox, but since I upgraded to IE9 I have been forgetting 
about it. IE9 is 10 times better than IE8 and since my university's website 
doesn't open on firefox, I am using IE a lot more. But you will have no 
problems with firefox.

    HTH

    Yadiel


    From: JM Casey 
    Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:24 PM
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Subject: Some questions about Firefox


    Hello everyone,

    So I'm pretty sick of Internet Explorer and its foolish foibles. I'd like 
to get on board with Firefox at last, but the last time I attempted this with 
JFW was years ago, and it simply didn't work very satisfactorily.

    Now I have Jaws 11 and windows XP, and I'd like to ask you folks what the 
latest version of Firefox I can use might be that will work pleasantly with my 
Jaws version. I'd also like to know:

    If the programme generally works smoothly and has scripts designed 
comparably to the Explorer ones, so that it works efficiently with Jaws
    Whether the programme crashes frequently, like Explorer seems to do on 
"fancy" pages
    If there are any add-ons or plug-ins that you people use and find worthy 
that I might also try. I know of Noscript and I think I'll definitely be 
getting that one.

    ANy thoughts? Recommendations?

    Thanks.




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