Re: Some questions about Firefox
- From: "Yadiel Sotomayor" <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:42:23 -0400
?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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