Except that Stephen Clower from GW Micro posted this earlier:
We have seen this as well and are investigating. From our initial tests,
Mozilla introduced a change in the Firefox 20 series which is causing a
call we make (which was previously valid) to crash the browser. We hope
to have a resolution available soon.
Thanks,
Steve
Certainly not GW Micro's fault, just one of those things that often happens
when major updates occur, but good of the GW crew to be on the issue so
quickly. Folks not experienceing crashes with WE and Firefox 20 are
apparently not doing anything that results in the invalid call and, unless
the call is one only relevant to screen readers, it is possible that other
software (i.e. add ons, plugins and so on) could also use that call and thus
lead to crashes for folks using them.
Regards,
Chris
Regards,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Vaughan Dodd
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:24 PM
To: 'Dave Bahr' ; 'gw-info'
Subject: RE: frequent firefox crashes and we 8.2
I appear to be having different experiences to others on this list.
Firefox 20.0.1 has crashed for me three times today in five hours, always at
time of a download link being activated. I guess I regard this as less
frequent than was the case with Window-Eyes v8.1, but I agree that this is
still not totally satisfactory.
I am convinced that Window-eyes is not related to this - as v8.2 has worked
faultlessly for me since its download an install earlier today.
Firefox is unhelpful with audible.com, but Internet Explorer worked well
today so I guess the old adage still applies - if one option doesn't work,
thank goodness for an alternative.
Vaughan.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bahr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 25 April 2013 10:59 a.m.
To: gw-info
Subject: Re: frequent firefox crashes and we 8.2
um....good question? Interaction with flash? didn't know it didn't crash
with nvda but I don't like nvda.
On 4/24/2013 4:57 PM, Peter Beasley wrote:
So why does it not crash when using NVDA?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Bahr" <[email protected]>
To: "gw-info" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: frequent firefox crashes and we 8.2
it's firefox itself, not window-eyes. there are forum posts about it
and doesn't seem like a solution as of yet. I'm seriously thinking of
downgrading to 17.0.1 On 4/24/2013 3:14 PM, john schwery wrote:
Yep, I'm getting crashes.
earlier, Steven Clark wrote:
Is anyone else having frequent crashes of Firefox with Window eyes
8.2?
I'm running the current version of firefox, 20.0.2 and window eyes
8.2.
It doesn't matter what I'm doing in firefox, going to a different
web page, opening a file, etc I get a message that firefox has
crashed.
I'm not running any plug ins with firefox, not doing anything
strange. I even tried totally uninstalling firefox, deleted the
settings and reinstalled from a fresh download and even had firefox
crash at the end of the install.
I'm not getting any crashes at all with nvda running.
I'm running xp home with all windows updates applied, nod32 for
anti virus with all updates and not much else on this computer.
I've had this happen after starting window eyes with nvda running
first and also after a reboot with no screen reader starting
automatically and running window eyes manually. Also the same if I
have window eyes start automatically, none of that changes anything.
Thanks,
Steve
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