Re: The best internet browser to use with JAWS.
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James Homuth
does Waterfox still use the old extension API? I know a few people who've switched away from other FF forks when that API was security patched, but wasn't sure if Waterfox was one of them.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: February-13-19 6:15 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: The best internet browser to use with JAWS. Yes, I know about all that and jumped through a few hoops just so I could Use FS quantum. It might be a resource hog. It does not run that fast on my 3500 MHZ AMD machine with 8 gb of ram. It works well enough, though, for the most part, and I still use it more often than I do Chrome. I recently jumped aboard the Waterfox train, out of curiosity, and I have to admit it does run faster and looks exactly like Firefox. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of James Homuth Sent: February 13, 2019 5:57 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: The best internet browser to use with JAWS. A lot of people steered away from firefox when they switched over to the Quantum versions. Or kept with some older ESR version of firefox. Mostly because, and I hear rumors it may have improved slightly, Firefox Quantum is kind of a resource hog. Chrome is actually easier on a system than that, from what I hear. I can't say for sure because I'm on JAWS 18 and latest firefox hates that, but that's the word on the street anyway. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: February-13-19 5:37 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: The best internet browser to use with JAWS. No, it wasn't at all, no need to apologise. That's all quite interesting. However I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't the only developer perspective. I know a few for example who stay away from Google for precisely the reason you mentioned. If they use Google products, they do so through services that hide their personal info. I actually thought Firefox was the most popular browser among developers because of its open-source nature. Maybe that has changed in the last few years? -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of thomas f dinkel Sent: February 13, 2019 3:57 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: The best internet browser to use with JAWS. JM, The vast majority of developers that I am in contact with see Chrome as the “only browser that matters“ and the browser that everyone should be using. They came for the built-in development tools, they stayed for the convenience of having google store all of their information in one place (and they think that’s a feature). I hear “Firefox is an edge-case” and “Firefox is disappearing“ so do we really need to make it work in Firefox? Now that MS Edge is going to be running Chrome (Chromium) under the hood, there are even less browser options for us. So, to people I care about, I encourage them to do this one small thing to help protect their personal information: make Firefox your default browser. Google makes pretty good stuff, but it isn’t free; we pay by giving them our information. Sorry, that was more than you asked for. Take care, Thomas On Feb 13, 2019, at 1:37 PM, JM Casey <jmcasey@...> wrote:
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