78.02 which is now the latest version, also
crashes, I mostly use the new Chromium based Edge for the most
part.
Richard
"He that cannot forgive others
breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself,” and we
forget that only grace can break the cycle of ancient
hatreds among peoples. (It is notable that while I have
regretted not granting grace to others, I’ve never once
regretted extending it.)" - Edward Herbert
It crashed occasionally before 78.0.1 but
it was a tolerable level of wankiness. This update is
definitely unveiling something nasty. Mozilla apparently had a
twitter back and forth trying to reproduce this bug and it was
a tricky one to both find and solve. I guess we wait for next
update, which with FF…should be soon.
For what it’s worth, I have JAWS 2020 and I
have stopped using Firefox for the most part because it
crashes frequently. I spoke with tech support at Freedom
Scientific who told me they are well aware of it.
Shirley Tracy
From: JM
Casey
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 2:43 PM
To: jfw@groups.io
Subject: Any thoughts on getting latest version of
Firefox (78.0.1) to work better with older JFW (2018)?
Hey folks. Yes, I know
JAWS 2018 is behind the curve, now, and that an upgrade
would be beneficial. However, I’m not in a position to
upgrade at this time. At the risk of running a huge struggle
to continue using outdated software, I would like to know if
anybody has any ideas of configuration settings that might
make Firefox less crashy using this screen-reader. I know
its’ an issue between interaction with JAWS and firefox and,
frankly, always has been since the advent of Quantum. I
tested this with nVDA (2019.3 and 2020.1) and it’s a lot
less crashy. In fact I have failed to make Firefox crash
even once using this other screen-reader. I know some users
of JAWS 2020 have reported crashes, too, but I’m unable to
test that currently and at a guess, newer versions of JFW
should probably work better as well as NVDA. Anyway, since
I’m not looking to downgrade firefox and not quite ready to
either upgrade or give up JFW for the web browsing
experience, in part because it works so nicely with my Focus
braille display, just wondering if there are any
flags/options I can alter in about:preferences or
about:config (firefox’s “hidden” advanced settings page
containing literally thousands of configurable options) that
might help me have a smoother experience. Right now, since
FF updated to 78.0.1 a week or two ago, everything from
wikipedia pages to my old wisp’s webmail is crashing tabs.
This only happens when jFW is running.
NB: I’m aware of other
browsers and use them, so no need to suggest just switching
browsers. Thanks!!
