re: What is the fastest internet browser that works with Jaws?
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:24:45 -0700
I vowed not to contribute to this thread anymore, but I'd like to clarify
something about my own download/Web loading speed. Which is that while I may
have to wait a couple of seconds for some Web pages, others load so quickly,
even at my humble connection speed, that I'd scarcely call it a wait.
For instance, I just went to National Public Radio's site in order to hear a
segment from today's Morning Edition that I'd caught only the tail end of,
as I knew the show would be online by now because, here in California, I'm
three hours behind Washington, DC. So I went to http://npr.org, whose home
page loaded pretty darn fast. Then I clicked on the link Go to Text Version
because if I want to listen to something, I prefer to use the "Listen" links
that bring up my own Real Player, which I can control with Jaws, rather than
the proprietary NPR audio player which I guess is Flash, and which I can't
figure out how to make pause and resume. Or find any of its controls,
actually. But I don't care that much because I can do this work-around. The
point is, the text only mirror site loaded in a snap. No wait at all.
So sometimes if a site's server is really responsive, the download of pages
may be awfully fast, even with a modest connection. I know others are
talking about the relative merits of ISPs and different specifics about
connection with different initials and acronyms that I don't understand, but
this efficiency at the server level is something I can appreciate.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: What is the fastest internet browser that works with Jaws?
You mean, rather than wait about two or three seconds while the page loads,
it simply snaps into view instantaneously, as if you'd done nothing more
than alt Tab between two running applications? If that's how it is, I'll say
that of course I'd notice the difference. But I'd also say it scarcely
matters to me. Like others, I remember the years during which I clung to my
old dial-up Internet connection before I finally followed a friend's advice
and went DSL. Now, that change made the dial-up look so primitive that I
wondered how I'd endured the waiting. But the difference between a couple of
seconds passing while a Web page loads, and the luxury of having it load
instantaneously as if it were just a screen of some program on my own
computer, that's scarcely an annoyance to me. This isn't in my humble
opinion, exactly. It's more like just how I feel about it. I'm not in the
least suggesting that anyone else should feel as I do.
And finally, I would not even think of denying that if I were to upgrade my
upload/download speeds to the max available to me, I wouldn't find the
improvement gratifying or at least fun. I'm just saying, given my modest
budget, the speed I have is perfectly all right with me and not a source of
stress.
I hope this is clear. I also think this thread ought to close out, already.
I'm not going to keep posting to it anymore, anyway.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Orhan Deniz" <orhan.deniz63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: What is the fastest internet browser that works with Jaws?
Quite noticeable imho.
HTH,
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On Friday, July 11, 2008 10:35 PM Yardbird wrote:
> Really? Is the difference significant? I mean, are we talking an extra
> minute to download a page from The New York times? Or a few seconds?
> Half a second? Just want to get some idea of what kind of speed
> difference we're talking about. thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon B" <serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: What is the fastest internet browser that works with
> Jaws?
>
>
> Yes, if I'm not mistaken, firefox loads and renders pages faster then
> any other accessible browser on the windows side.
> Yardbird wrote:
>> Hi Brandon,
>>
>> What do you mean by saying one browser is faster than another? Do
>> you mean that when you click on a link or run a Google search, it
>> finds and loads your Web page more quickly than the other browser is
>> able to? Thanks. ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brandon B"<serrebi101@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To:<jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 12:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: What is the fastest internet browser that works with
>> Jaws?
>>
>>
>> The fastest browser is probably Mozilla Firefox 3. get it from
>> http://www.getfirefox.com
>> livingfearless01@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> What is the fastest internet browser that works with Jaws. I use
>>> internet explorer but it's to slow.
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>
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