hi all. I to have firefox installd but use IE most of the time if not all of the time since I to have found that firefox doesn't work that well with jaws not as well as IE 6 does. I am using jaws 7.0. well those are my thoughts. from Mich Verrier from New Liskeard Ontario Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:35 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] JAWS & Fire Fox
>I downloaded FireFox about 6 months ago and my feedback is quite mixed. > > My own experience is that FireFox is definitely faster than IE but does > not > work as well with Jaws. These can be minor but annoying things. I have > encountered the following problems. > > 1. I often need to refresh the screen with insert escape for Jaws to pick > up > the headings links in a Google search page. This behaviour is never > replicated in IE7 > > 2, FireFox with Jaws does not, for some reason, read all edit box labels . > On one of my savings accounts it is impossible to log in as the edit boxes > will not be read. Closing Firefox Switching to IE will cause the problem > to > disappear. > > 3. Firefox is extremely unstable with the Form Field list feature in Jaws. > Often it will not pick up the Insert key press with F5 and will simply > interpret this as a request to refresh the page through a single F5 push. > This sporadic problem becomes permeate on a page once you have made one > use > of insert plus F5 to get a form field list. Firefox will never allow you > to > return to the Forms Field list once you have used it once and will > simply > refresh the page. This has made it impossible for me to use FireFox to > enter > another bank account where for some reason Form Fields are read out of > order > in an almost random fashion. > > So in the end I use FireFox on an old laptop as it is definitely faster > than IE but use IE for anything to do that requires serious use of data > input. > > Regards > > David Griffith > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donnie > Parrett > Sent: Friday, 04 July 2008 04:44 > To: JAWS-Users > Subject: [JAWS-Users] JAWS & Fire Fox > > I am taking Fire Fox for a test drive. So far I have found that my JAWS > Find Command (control plus the letter F) does not work. I am using JAWS > 7.0. Can someone please tell me how to fix this problem? Also, what is > your opinion of Fire Fox verses IE? Thanks for any feedback that I can > get > on this subject. > > Donnie > > Contact me at: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, KY 40402 > Home # 606-364-3321 > Cell # 606-438-2557 > Church # 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [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] > > > > 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]
