I'm having tons of issues with Safari as well, and the last three weeks sounds about right. I haven't updated to Lion yet either. Seems like several sites I visit tend to stall out just about the time I get to the information I need. The HTML will close and I'll be dumped into the bookmarks bar. I interact with the HTML again, and same thing when I get to a certain point on the page. I'm going to Windows more and more for web surfing, and I don't like to have to do that, but IE is working better than Safari or WebKit at this point. On Aug 14, 2011, at 3:11 AM, Eric Oyen wrote:
> oh yeah. the dreaded "safari busy" problem. I am seeing that a lot more > lately. its even happening in the new webkit versions. on top of the safari > issues, I also have mail.app behaving in an odd manner. it starts stuttering > reading the mail titles and even tries to repeat the same line 3 times in > voiceover. its getting so irritating that I give up reading e-mails except in > small batches. this particular problem only cropped up in the last 3 weeks. I > have done all the usual system corrections (scanning permissions and even the > repair disk function). so far, no dice. > > please don't ask me to upgrade to lion as I don't have the money nor the > supported hardware. I already tried and the installer barfed while starting > up. even when I got visual help here to see what the problem was they told me > it was not possible to install lion on my system as the cpu was considered > too old. I am saving up for a new mac mini i7. until then, I am stuck with > whatever I have. > > -Eric > On Aug 13, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Shen wrote: > >> I have the same problems with Chrome. But when I was prompted to choose a >> search engine, I chose the first image button. I figure the choices are >> probably Google, Yahoo and Bing. I'm quite certain Google is the first >> choice, and I was right. >> I am able to read an html site, but for some reason, some links don't click. >> Drop down menus like amazon.com does not work. When I type something in an >> edit box, apparently it is going into the box, but VoiceOver does not read >> it back to me. >> I can't use tab navigation the way I do in Safari. >> In Chrome Preferences, I can get past the first tab, which is Basic. >> In my opinion, Chrome is somewhat accessible,but it's not ready to replace >> Safari. >> I wish there is something that can replace Safari. At this point, I'm ready >> to go back to Windows and using Firefox with Jaws or Window-Eyes. At least >> it's not going to say "Safari busy". >> >> >> On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> well, >>> I wanted to try out google chrome today and couldn't even get past the >>> select a search engine interface. all it presented me with was 3 images and >>> 3 unlabeled buttons. also, I couldn't use any of the web item rotor >>> controls and even command Q would not terminate the application. so, unless >>> anyone has some suggestions on how I can use chrome, I guess I am still >>> stuck with safari. >>> >>> I really hate the thought of going back to windows after spending a year in >>> OS X. I hated dealing with windows and its arbitrary interface that wasn't >>> very blind friendly (even with NVDA). anyone have any clues for me? >>> >>> -Eric >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
