I'm running the latest Firefox, but had been doing so prior to updating JFW last week. I cant' recall having these issues with the bloated process and general sluggishness/unresponsiveness from Jaws before the 11.0.143 upgrade though.
I've disabled plug ins and add ons in Firefox too just to be sure that might be contributing to the problem, but no luck. As far as a blue screen . . . I'd have to check with my sighted wife, but so far, she hasnt' mentioned anything to me regarding any Firefox problems on her PC. Cristobal -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erin B. Edgar Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] firefox process and the new jfw update Hi, Chris, I am having similar problems, and I don't know what is causing them. If you haven't updated Firefox recently, then there might be a conflict between JAWS and Firefox. However, not only did JAWS 11 update last week, but so did Firefox. I'm wondering if your issues are resulting from the latest Firefox update rather than the JAWS update. I'm having similar problems to yours. My husband, who is sighted and doesn't use a screenreader, is also having similar processor issues after installing the latest Firefox update. I've also been getting weird blue screens since installing the latest version of FF, so I'm using Internet Explorer until I figure out whether these are conflicts between JAWS and Firefox or just simply a buggy Firefox update. Erin -------------------------------------------------- From: "CrisMunoz54" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 2:38 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [JAWS-Users] firefox process and the new jfw update > Hello list, > > Since updating to the new JFW release that came out last week, I've been > noticing that my Firefox browser has become quite sluggish and over all > more > cumbersome. Jaws frequently pauses for quite a bit now after the browser > is > open for a few minutes and often, I have to click on a link more than once > for it to activate. Checking out the processes in the task manager, I see > that my Firefox process gets into the 400000 range after only 40 minutes > or > so and goes up to 6 and 600000 soon after. Before doing the upgrade, I > wouldn't see those types of numbers only until the browser had been open > for > a long time. Now, if I want to continue using Mozilla on a prolonged > basis, > I find myself having to close and relaunch Firefox throughout the day. > Something I never really had to do except for every blue moon prior to > doing > the upgrade. IE 8 seems to be working fine with no wild increase in its > process. > > I have no idea whether this new JFW 11.0.143 upgrade and my Mozilla > performance issues have anything to do with each other, but I can't think > of > anything else that has changed on my system that could be affecting it. > I've > got both antivirus and anty spyware programs (Microsoft security > essentials > and A2squared) running on my machine and everything's up to date and > clean. > Also, I'm running XP Pro 32 bit. > > I know others along with myself have been reporting various problems since > upgrading JFW and was curious if my Mozilla process issue was in fact > being > experienced by others as well. > > Any input or observations or perhaps even confirmation of this problem > would > be quite welcomed. Firefox is my prefered browser and I'd like to keep it > that way. I've already contacted FS support about some other update issues > but so far after a couple of e-mail back and forths, I've gotten the > standard "your inquiry has been bumped up to a research supervisor" > response. I'm not exactly holding my breath... > > Thanks, > Cristobal > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
