I'm not sure if I am implimenting the work-around correctly, but I'm getting an error message saying something like:
access denied - you will need to provide administrator permission to hange these settings. Click continue to complete this operation. On 10/26/2017 2:08 AM, David via Talk wrote: > 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/nicksarames%40msn.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. 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