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running a huge struggle to continue using outdated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!!
