I have encountered this problem sometimes more frequently sometimes less
with every screen reader I have used and with every browser I have used. The
only thing that has ever seemed to make a difference has been to up the
cache of the browser. Unfortunately, whether this happened in Firefox 4 or
5, I am not certain, they seem to have locked the cache at 1 Gv, 1024 Mb. In
the past, I have used a cache anywhere from 3 to 8 Gb for my cache size. I
have plenty of disc space to spare since I put Windows and applications in a
partition that contains nothing but applications, saving the other larger
partition for media, documents and other files. But now that the cache seems
locked, I don't know what might help out this issue. I would love to have it
solved for good since it is one of the most irritating minor (by minor I
mean issues that don't cause crashes or major functionality or access
difficulties) problems I've encountered and it is also one of the oldest and
most pervasive screen reader quirks I have ever encountered. Nothing like
getting well into an item description on a commercial site or far into a
discussion thread on a message board, particularly one that doesn't make
each post in a thread its own title, header or list and then to be thrown
back to the top and needing to start over.
The other version of this issue is when you get far into a page and discover
that the page stopped loading there, saying bottom and bonking at you for
trying to navigate further. The only solution here is to reload and try to
find the point where you left off and also to check to be sure that
everything before the cutoff point actually loaded since sometimes it does
not and there is content you missed. Here also, the only thing that I have
found to help in this case is to increase the cache, though I suppose that
adding more Ram might help reduce the incidences of all of these problems.
Note, I must admit that I have only encountered this second version of the
problem a couple of times since the 7.5.1 update and have not as of yet
found any missing content before the cutoff point except in a couple of
cases where it was beyond obvious that not all of the page had loaded such
as with the Amazon Shopping Cart which very often loads showing only one
table where there should be three or four depending on number of items in
the cart or save later section of the cart and all pages I have encountered
that do this do not require a reload, just a redraw.
So, the only advice I can give is to make sure your cache is at the 1 Gb
max. Aside from expanding RAM, this is the only thing I have gotten definite
results from with this issue. Perhaps there are other options to improve
things or an alternate means of increasing the cache in Firefox beyond 1 Gb.
If either of these is the case, and if anyone knows the details, I also
would love to know since I do a lot of research online that means reading
long articles and I would love anything that could improve or eliminate
these issues.
HTH,
Chris--------------------------------------------------
From: "Louis" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 12:55 AM
To: "gw-info" <[email protected]>
Subject: firefox refreshing
On certain pages using Firefox I reach a spot on the page and it
refreshes and takes me back to the top. Is there a shortcut key or way
to disable this function? Thanks for your help.
Louis
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