You are accurate with respect to the Mozilla apps although I open tabs in 
Safari all the time simply by pressing cmd-return on the given link.  Sometimes 
I need to interact a level down but I'd have to do that to press the link with 
VO-space anyway.

Later...

On 2012-01-17, at 7:41 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:

> firefox doesn't work with VO at all. about the most you can expect is access 
> to the pulldown menus. the scroll area just says "scroll area" and VO will 
> not read anything displayed there. my last go around with FF was 5 months ago 
> and it was not usable for me at all.
> 
> as for Safari, I use the developer version called webkit. it has more 
> features than standard Safari. One of those features is the ability to open 
> links in separate tabs (which regular Safari can't seem to do).
> 
> One last point, it seems that mozilla thunderbird is equally as inaccessible 
> as the FF browser. this pretty much limits what I can use on OS X. still, 
> mail.app works fairly well without too many hitches.
> 
> -eric
> 
> On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> There are some websites that work better for sighted Mac users with
>> Firefox than they do with Safari.  I have very limited experience
>> using FF BUT FEEL IT DOESN't respond to VO very well. Are there
>> different VO commands for FF I need to learn?  Does Firefox work well
>> with VO?
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