Hi, I'm surprised to hear this. JAWS 9 is very responsive and reliable. Chris Feist wrote: > Hi again. As I mentioned before, I've been using JAWS 7.0 for quite a long > time and loving it. But I've been forced to upgrade JAWS because I had no > choice but to go ahead and install Internet Explorer 7, (because some Web > pages were no longer accessible to me with Internet Explorer 6). > > The reason I used JAWS 7 as long as I could was because I found JAWS 8 to be > sluggish in some areas. Now I've found JAWS 9 to be exactly the same. > Using the tab key on Web pages is significantly slower. Before, I would > hear the link I landed on spoken instantaneously. Now, there is enough of a > delay to drastically slow my on-line movements down. > > Also, when doing an Insert numpad 8 in Outlook 2003, it's sluggish reading > the current line. as I'm scrolling down and looking through my email > folders. There are a few other glitches that I've noticed in both versions > 8 and 9 that are not occurring in JAWS 7, and I'll be contacting FS customer > support about hopefully resolving these issues. > > In the mean time, however, I thought I would ask if anyone else has noticed > sluggish behavior of any kind in these newer versions? And if so, have they > found a solution, such as perhaps disabling unused functions of JAWS? I'm > not even certain that is possible. I'm assuming that the problem > potentially could be that JAWS is using up more memory than before. I've > got a relatively new computer that is plenty fast along with 1 gig of > memory, so I know it's not my computer in that regard which is at the root > of the problem. > > Thanks for any thoughts. BTW, this sluggish behavior occurs exactly the > same on two separate computers. > > Chris Feist - The one and only! > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or > body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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