Re: Firefox Lagging and Freezing
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Bill White <billwhite92701@...>
Hi, JM. I was just on the phone with VFO, and we even reproduced the issue on my machine with JAWS unloaded, using Narrator. So, either it is a Firefox/Windows problem, or it is a Firefox problem which affects computers running any screen reader, even Narrator. I wish I could have had someone sighted here to find out if Firefox is still freezing when a screen reader isn’t present at all.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of JM Casey
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 12:48 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Firefox Lagging and Freezing
I’ve been talking with someone else on these lists about this issue and we have sent in reports to FS. It is a JAWS bug that Freedom Scientific techs have now susccessfully replicated. Assuming it’s the same experience, at least. JAWS lags for a few seconds, then appears to work, but no Firefox menus or links will function, and you have to close the program with task manager.
Maybe fixed by jAWS October 2018 update? That’d be nice. Kind of annoying to have a Process Explorer window running all the time ready to restart Firefox.
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill White
Hi, Cristóbal. I’m having this same lagging and freezing in Firefox. Here is my processor and RAM info.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)
Here is my JAWS and Windows info:
About JAWS JAWS Job Access With Speech Home Use Edition Version 2018.1808.10 ILM
About Windows Microsoft Windows Version 1803 (OS Build 17134.285)
My Firefox version:
Firefox Version 62.0
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Cristóbal
Getting similar issues. Also frequently in Outlook 2016. So much to the point where it drove me off of my tower and I’m working mainly off of my laptop. Probably with more time, I’ll try to play around with the two to see if there are any extra processes, etc, but I’m genrealy good about that sort of thing. Anyway, The laggy, crashing and over all crappy Jaws performance I’ve been experiencing on my Dell tower for the past couple of weeks I so far haven’t experienced on my HP Envy laptop. Both PCs have I core 7 processors, but the tower has 8 GB or ram. Where as the laptop’s got 16. The issues on the tower have become so significant and sudden that I can’t think that it suddenly has to do with the ram. Running Windows 10, latest JFW 2018, current Firefox/Chrome etc on both machines. So who knows…
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill White
I’m noticing it, too, and one site, radio.com, crashes firefox, and I have to kill it with Task Manager.
From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Jerry Berrier via Groups.Io
I’m wondering if anybody else is having this problem. I’m running Firefox version 62, latest version of JFW, and Windows 10. I’ll be arrowing down through a web page, and all of a sudden JAWS just stops reading. Sometimes it comes back after a few seconds, but not always. I especially notice it when reading the Boston Globe in NFB Newsline on the web.
Also when I’m using Google Docs, I’m noticing an irritating lag when I hit up or down arrow in a document.
Any thoughts on how to remedy this?
Jerry Berrier Director of Education Technology Perkins School for the Blind
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