Hi Bill, I installed Firefox 37.0.2 on 2 computers, 1 XP & 1 Win7 Pro, within the last few days &, by changing the value from true to false on this entry,
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled set Boolean true either changed the values of the following to true or, the values have been changed in the later releases of Firefox, "gfx.direct2d.disabled" with a default value of False. "layers.acceleration.disabled" with a default value of False. In both instances the above values were changed to true by either Mozilla in their new releases or by changing the first about:config entryy in this post. If this happened by some freak thing, I don't know but, I can only state what my results were. Others might not have the same results &, it would not hurt to check the about:config entries you posted to be on the safe side. I have heard of instances that making these changes in, about:config, have not worked for some people. Why these steps work for some but, not for others, I do not have a clue. Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iGoDodgersBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill White via Jfw To: The Jaws for Windows support list. Cc: Bill White Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 10:30 AM Subject: Re: lost instructions to make Firefox and Thunderbird work betterwithJaws Hi, Robert. I am posting the complete instructions here to make Thunderbird and Firefox readable with the JAWS cursor and in dialogue boxes. Previous posts have not included all the instructions. When using Mozilla Firefox version 4 or newer, reviewing web pages using the JAWS Cursor is problematic. Mozilla is using a new graphical technology in Firefox version 4 and newer which bypasses the offscreen model, (OSM). Since JAWS For Windows depends on the OSM to allow the user to review the screen using the JAWS Cursor, things don't work the same as with older versions of Firefox, (such as version 3.6). Solution: 1. Launch Mozilla Firefox. 2. Press Control-L to open a new link. 3. Type "about:config" and press Enter. (All commands to type do not include the quotation marks) 4. If you are presented with a dialog which warns you about the dangers of making changes, Tab to the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button and press Enter. 5. At this point you should be out of Virtual Cursor mode and on a filter Edit Box. If not, turn off Virtual Cursor mode by pressing JAWS Key - z. 6. In the filter Edit Box type "direct2d.disabled". 7. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one called "gfx.direct2d.disabled" with a default value of False. 8. Press Enter to toggle this value to True. 9. Press Shift-Tab to get back to the filter Edit Box and type "layers.acceleration.disabled". 10. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one called "layers.acceleration.disabled" with a default value of False. 11. Press Enter to toggle this value to True. 12. In the filter Edit Box type "composition.enabled" 13. Press Tab to get to the list of filtered entries and you should see one called layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled with a value of true 14. Press Enter to toggle this value to False. 15. Press Control-W to close the configuration window. 16. Restart Firefox. you should now be able to use the JAWS Cursor to review web pages while using Mozilla Firefox version 36.0.1 and newer. Bill White [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Logue via Jfw" <[email protected]> To: "The Jaws for Windows support list." <[email protected]> Cc: "Robert Logue" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2015 5:35 PM Subject: lost instructions to make Firefox and Thunderbird work better withJaws >I reset Firefox and now some areas of the browser don't read as well with >Jaws 15 and 16. Would someone please re post the fantastic instructions to >edit the Firefox configuration file to make Jaws and other screen readers >work better with it? Please, also send a link to the source if it is >published. > > Thanks in advance. > > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 11535 (20150426) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 11535 (20150426) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20150426/e259dc55/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
