Re: Bye bye, firefox
While I will agree with ie's inherent accessibility, the problem I was finding last year was that too many websites would hang or crash or similar, which got to be a right pain.
This especially happened with a lot of games such as clicker idle games like space company. Since I'm sort of supposed to be playing games in order to write about them. This was not a good situation for me which was why I moved to chrome myself.
I had previously tried firefox and been unimpressed, both with the system slowdown or crashes (and reports of inaccessible versions didn't encourage me either), , so Chrome seemed the logical thing to try.
For the most part I am very happy with Chrome, but I will admit Chrome has it's issues.
I do not like the fact that the bookmarks manager in Chrome is so clunky although it's relatively easy to circumvent most of functions using the application key. I also don't like needing an addon to disable multi tabbed browsing or risking having thirty billion tabs open by mistake.
I have also run into the odd website such as goodreads where Chrome hangs Nvda up on one element, though how much this is a chrome issue and how much a NVda one I don't know (Nvda also used to have issues with popups in Chrome until , 17.4, which now are fine). Chrome's integration with a few windows features such as playing sounds or flash content doesn't work that well either. I also did not like the fact that I needed to plumb my google account to stop Chrome tracking a lot of my browsing history, although C cleaner certainly helps with that too and once it's done it's done.
on the plus side as well as crashing and hanging far less than Ie does and being in general a hell of a lot faster, I do like Chrome's ability to resume from the last used website, and the fact that downloads work as they used to on pre Ie9, with an actual honest to goodness "download dialogue" none of those crazy extra side bars or the like.
I've also noticed that where occasionally both Nvda and Supernova would get spotted around pages when loading new pages in Ie, (especially when you have multiple windows open), in Chrome that is far less likely, which makes navigating between pages easier, indeed I like the fact that in Chrome it's far easier to have a page or two open statically while your browsing another site or doing something else in windows (great for playing clicker idle games or running web missions on flexible survival).
These days, I use Chrome for most of my browsing, but fire up Ie if I come upon something chrome doesn't like, such as flash games or sites like goodreads.
I do wish Supernova would support chrome, since on the rare occasions I switch back from nvda to Sn to see how windows 10 support is going, I am limited to using Ie, but manifestly that is a Supernova problem not a chrome one, and just more evidence that the old "read any on screen text by default" supernova I used to know in the early xp days is well and truly gone.
Ah well, that's why my lady and I give monthly donations to Nvda these days and probably shan't be buying version 17 of supernova.
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