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using outdated software, I would like to know if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!!
