I resisted, but you are wrong, Scorpio. If you don't use any of the Google
features, and just go to Google.com, you are talking apples when Flor is
talking oranges.
I, like Flor, am a Googlegroups owner. They specifically don't support IE8
any longer, they encourage you to use their Chrome browser or at a minimum a
Crhome Plug-in tool for IE. That plug-in has caused some issues with other
people that you can see by doing a search.
To be able to continue managing my groups, I have to use Firefox instead.
Even that is not perfect, but that is a Google interface design issue, at
least with Firefox the group management function can be accomplished if not
smoothly, unlike in IE where it can't be done. (NOTE: I haven't tried IE10
to see if Google GRoups is happier with that version yet.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scorpio" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Unable to Change Google Search Settings
Hi Flor,
I won't play semantics with you.
The fact is, you said that Google says you should install Chrome for the
best results. Well, that's been the case with every software developer in
the known world.
Mozilla says you should install their browser because it's open source and
not as restrictive as other browsers.
Apple says you should install Safari for a wonderful browsing experience.
Before these, you had the turf war between Internet Explorer and Netscape
Navigator.
Regardless of what internet turf war your referring to, the fact is the
same, the webpage does not change.
I've never experienced that which you describe with Google telling me I
should install Chrome, nor have they ever suggested that it would be a far
better experience.
I have never used any other Google page but the one I use now,
http://www.google.com/ and I have always signed in to have my preferences
loaded.
In any case, I still maintain that this is a computer specific problem,
and has nothing to do with Google, or the Internet.
I have a multitude of friends running Windows XP, Internet Explorer 8, and
lower versions of Jaws, and they manage just fine, including myself, as I
believe I mentioned in my previous message that I was using Jaws on all
three systems running all three platforms. I have also pasted the message
you wrote where I inferred my original statement, lest there be any
confusion.
I should also mention that there are many blind people who use Chrome
instead of Internet Explorer or any other browser just fine and without
any problem.
Scorpio
***Original Message***
From: "Flor Lynch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Unable to Change Google Search Settings
Date: Friday, September 06, 2013 10:38 AM
Google want you to download & install their own browser, Chrome. Firefox
is like it and, for several of our purposes, replicates Chrome nearly
and more accessibly, as well as having better keyboard support for
functionalities.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 1:32 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Unable to Change Google Search Settings
Hi listers. Using IE 8 with XP and JAWS 9, I discovered this morning
that Google.com has apparently changed its home page yet again, and now
I am unable to change my preferences on the search settings page. There
seems to be no way to turn Google Instant on or off like there used to
be, nor is there any apparent way to change the number of results per
page from the default value of 10. And I could not find any button to
save the search preferences. I tried with the virtual PC cursor on and
off (Insert Z), but nothing seems to work. I was last able to
successfully change my search settings a few days ago. I think I heard a
brief message that my browser was outdated and no longer supported or
something like that, which , of course is nonsense, because IE 8 is the
latest bersion supported by XP. Does anyone have any idea what's going
on with Google? Are they conspiring with MS to force us to upgrade to
Windows 8? Is there any way to change the number of results per page and
insure that Google Instant is turned off, short of switching to Firefox,
which I despise and use only for its Webvisum function? Thanks.
Gerald
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