Debby, You are right. Shortly after my posting the workaround, yet another version (56.01) came out from Mozilla, and swoopsy, there all accessibility flew out the windows. The recent version of Firefox, in very short and sharp words, is USELESS for WinEyes users.
I personally ended up going for the business version, as someone kindly suggested. So far, have had positive experience with it, and find it promissing to not having to fool around with new who-knows-why updates, every six weeks or so. If you seemingly have got Firefox up running in its safe mode, maybe I have a tiny bit of helpful info for you. Instead of having to manually remembering to start Firefox with the added Command line parameter, it should be possible to have it do so by hitting a hotkey. Please note, I have not tested this myself, so take it for whatever it might be worth to you. 1. Go to your Desktop. 2. Focus the Firefox Icon. 3. Hit the Shift-F10, alternatively, the App-key; and choose Properties. 4. Go down to the editbox where it asks for the program name, and insert the -safe-mode parameter after the name, separated with a space. Please note the dashes in the parameter. 5. While you are in this dialog, you might want to tab over to the hotkey part, and define yourself a quick-key for loading Firefox. For instance, I have defined Alt-Ctrl-F, which is quick and smooth way of loading the software from anywhere. 6. Tab to OK, and hit Enter. If everything goes well, you now should have Firefox start up in safe mode, every time you hit your new hotkey. Plese, may you be ware, in cases where you press Enter on a link in an Email, Firefox will load directly. In such cases, if Firefox is not yet loaded, it will load in normal mode. You hence might want to always keep a Firefox window, loaded in Safe Mode, open on your screen. Even a blank page should do. Again, should you find the workarounds fail, perhaps it might be time to give the business edition a spin. For the records, I installed it directly on top of my version 56, and it came up with all my history and favorites (bookmarks) ready to go. Should you want to make sure, you might follow the instructions Rod posted a few days ago, for backing up your bookmarks from firefox, prior to running the installation. It all was done in less than five minutes here, and it is good to have an otherwise stabil and nice browser back in business. I do take the opportunity to apologize to all, for any inconveniences my initially posted workarounds might have caused. They were clearly working at the moment, but Mozilla wanted it the other way around. Even sighted people complain, and yet, the updates are forced on you, even with the updating feature turned off in the Firefox settings. Nothing more to do. And yet, so far the business eedition might be the reliable way to go for the next few months. That is, if you don't want to switch to another screen reader, hoping that Mozilla won't break all support for assisistive technology altoghether in some version to come. On 10/26/2017 5:18 AM, Debby Franson via Talk wrote: > Hi! > > I tried the Firefox safe mode, and it worked. I could browse the page > as expected and I could get to the menus. I will need to start FF this > way, because, when I closed the browser and launched it again, I was > back to the ding with the silent treatment and no menus. > > Debby > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/trailerdavid%40hotmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > . > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
