Yes, I looked at these preferences, but could see nothing that might be helpful. Thanks, Russell On 2011-10-11, at 1:43 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > In Lion, does spotlight now have its own preferences? If so, maybe > something can get adjusted in there to help. > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Keith Reedy wrote: > >> Ok Russell, >> >> Lets see if we can un ravel this thing >> >> Sounds like you have some settings out of whack in navigation. >> All of the things that you have talked about here may be a part of the >> settings problem. >> >> I don't know how to make voiceover quit saying, system has new window. >> Any way >> Here is what I have, >> Initial position of Voiceover cursor, Key board focused item. >> Keyboard follows voiceover cursor, this box is checked. >> voiceover cursor follows key board focus, this box is checked. >> insertion point follows voiceover cursor, this box is checked. >> voiceover cursor follows insertion point, this box is checked. >> mouse pointer follows voiceover cursor. >> >> There will be times when you will need to enable live regions for some web >> pages. >> >> Hide the tool bar, you will only need it from time to time and you can show >> it again when you need it. >> >> When you bring up Safari using the doc, make sure you start from the finder, >> I don't know why, but, it seems to work better this way. >> >> I feel your pain, Lion is a bit unstable in a few areas, but, I think it >> will get better over time. >> >> HTH. >> Keith Reedy On Oct 10, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm becoming quite frustrated with Lion in the following 3 areas? perhaps >>> there's something I need to change in settings to get things to work >>> better, I'm not sure. >>> >>> 1. Spotlight search. I loved Spotlight search in Snow Leopard. I could >>> find anything, a file, email message, whatever. All I needed to do was >>> press command - space, type in a word or two, arrow down a list of results, >>> press enter on the result and it would open. In Lion, I press command, >>> space, type in a word or two, then, as I am arrowing down the list, I keep >>> getting interrupted by the message, "system has new window". If I can >>> manage to get VO focused on the result I want, when I press enter on it, >>> sometimes it will open, but most of the time it takes me to some sort of >>> search dialogue box at which point I need to VO right arrow till I find a >>> list of results to navigate through? way more cumbersome in my opinion. >>> >>> 2. Safari. I find that quite often, instead of a website opening within >>> the page, I am placed in the toolbar, and quite often cannot get out of the >>> toolbar. VO right arrow just keeps going around in a loop through the >>> toolbar, and tabbing does the same. >>> >>> 3. Item chooser. In Snow Leopard, I would quite often use the item chooser >>> to choose a piece of text I knew was on the page. I would get a nice list >>> of results with the desired text in it, and I could just arrow down the >>> list, press enter on the one I wanted, and I would be taken right to that >>> spot on the web page. Now, in Lion, 95% of the time I am presented with >>> results that have absolutely nothing to do with what I typed. >>> >>> Is anyone else experiencing these frustrations? Has something changed in >>> Lion that I'm not aware of? 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