Hi, Larry, I have found Firefox a lot less memory-heavy than IE., especially the later versions like IE 7. In other words, Firefox seems to require a lot fewer system resources in order to run at a fairly fast speed. There are also some add-ins, such as Add Blocker and an accessibility plug-in, for Firefox that make it more blind-friendly. There is a JAWS help section on Firefox, and in general, the accessibility commands JAWS uses for IE work in Firefox. I found the change-over very smooth and almost seamless. I changed to Firefox when I updated to IE 7, and so I'm still not used to tabbed browsing in either program. :)
It all comes down to personal preference, however. Hth, Erin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Stansifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:08 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] FireFox > Hi folks, > > Lately I have been reading a lot about "Mozilla FireFox." I am curious, is > there any really compelling reason for a blind person to jump ship from > "MSIE7? > I am using jaws 8.latest and windows-XP Pro. I am not interested in > changing > applications such as my E-mail client "MS-Outlook-XP" or anything else for > that matter. I am interested in features and benefits, learning curve and > simplicity of changeover. > > TNX > > Larry > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.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] > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.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]
