What version are you running and on what architecture (PowerPC or Intel)? If it's PowerPC, you probably want one of the PowerPC-optimized builds various parties have produced rather than Mozilla's generic Mac OS X build. e.g. from:
http://firefoxmac.furbism.com/ -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis On 8/4/07, Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had to install Firefox on my Mac because my e-mail account at > yahoo.com no longer recognizes Safari. My problem mostly with Firefox > is that it is a hard disc hog as well as a RAM hog; and, causes > everthing on the net; and, if it is running in the background, on my > Mac itself, run as slowly as 'molasses in January'; and, I just hate > standing at my computer 'twiddling my thumbs'. > > JG > > On 8/3/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you think it's worth giving it a go? > > James > > On 4 Aug 2007, at 00:30, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > > > > I think it's not only possible, but likely, if anyone comes forward to > > > do the work as Waara did before. As with any project, often bugs > > > remain unfixed in Firefox for a long time because, although everyone > > > is agreed they should be fixed, no-one puts in the time to fix them. > > > And this is quite a large and complex bug. > > > > > > On the other hand, I don't think Fire Vox is particularly expensive in > > > terms of hard disk storage. > > > > > > -- > > > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > > > > > On 8/4/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Ah thank you for explaining it to me Benjamin > > >> > > >> Do you think it is possible that Firefox will one day be VO usuable > > >> without the need for Firvox? I am not aainst speech enabled programs > > >> like this, but it just seems that VO might be able to do it on its > > >> own so saving space on the hard drive. > > >> > > >> Thanks james > > >> On 3 Aug 2007, at 23:50, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > > >> > > >>> Jude's problem with Mozilla Firefox is not the lack of Java Access > > >>> Bridge, but that the nobody has finished exposing Mozilla widgets to > > >>> the Apple Accessibility API that VoiceOver uses to understand > > >>> applications. Here's the relevant bug in the Mozilla bugzilla: > > >>> > > >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157209 > > >>> > > >>> Unfortunately for Firefox, Håkan Waara, who was working on this, > > >>> found > > >>> a job and no longer had time to continue. So currently nobody is > > >>> working on it, as far as I know. > > >>> > > >>> On the other hand, there is Fire Vox, as James mentioned, an > > >>> extension > > >>> that turns Firefox into a talking browser, and that does work on Mac > > >>> OS X. The homepage is: > > >>> > > >>> http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ > > >>> > > >>> In answer to James's question, what Firefox can do that Safari and > > >>> Shiira cannot is essentially a limitless set because, unlike > > >>> Safari or > > >>> Shiira, Mozilla provides a plugin framework and it has an active > > >>> plugin community: > > >>> > > >>> https://addons.mozilla.org/ > > >>> > > >>> In addition, the Gecko engine that underpins Firefox supports web > > >>> technologies that WebKit, the engine underpinning Safari or Shiira, > > >>> does not as yet. These technologies include MathML (a markup > > >>> language > > >>> for mathematical content) and ARIA (an enhancement to XHTML to make > > >>> Ajax widgets more accessible). > > >>> > > >>> Firefox also has rudimentary support for some basic HTML features > > >>> that > > >>> Safari and Shiira do not have. For example, Firefox provides some > > >>> access to the longdesc attribute for images; Safari and Shiira do > > >>> not. > > >>> Again, Firefox provides some access to the cite attribute of > > >>> quotations, Safari and Shiira do not. > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > > >>> > > >>> On 8/3/07, James Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> Hi, > > >>>> > > >>>> There is something called Fire Revox. It is as far as I understand > > >>>> it, a speech interfce for Firefox. Can i ask though out of > > >>>> curiosity, > > >>>> does Firefox do something that Safari or Shiira does not? > > >>>> > > >>>> Thanks James > > >>>> On 3 Aug 2007, at 22:15, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>> It may get better for me later this weekend, but for now I > > >>>>> recommend mac users who use voiceover stay with safari. It could > > >>>>> be that needs java access bridge which so far as I know isn't > > >>>>> on my > > >>>>> mac yet. When I started firefox up an import wizard came up and I > > >>>>> haven't been able so far to either read it or get beyond it. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > >
