Hi. I don't know if I have ever gotten this popup. I do get a message from google on their main page sometimes, but it does not look like a popup or dialog box. However, maybe JAWS isn't seeing it for some reason? I guess though this would come from google? Google *is* my homepage, so I guess that does seem reasonable. Maybe if I set my homepage to something else, this Chrome thing will not come up?
Yes, I do have the 64-bit version of ESR. Maybe I will try grabbing the other one. I thought the stability issue was mostly to do with ad-ons, but actually I have been getting bugged from webvism to log in to my account, whose details I've forgotten...I suppose that add-on might be causing some problems? -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of net bat66 Sent: November 25, 2017 4:43 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] strange issue with links not activating properly in Firefox after switching to ESR version one thing to check when this happens. i keep getting the chrome popup telling me i want to switch to chrome. when this happens both jaws and window eyes browse mode stops working until i can close this dialog. also did you download the 32 bit version of firefox esr? more people have better screen reader stibility with it then the 64bit version. -----Original Message----- From: JM Casey Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 1:33 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] strange issue with links not activating properly in Firefox after switching to ESR version Hey everyone. I'm running JAWS 18 on a Windows 10, 64-bit machine. Last week, my Firefox was updated to the Quantum, version 57, release. As has been discussed on this list, there are issues with accessibility with this version of the programme, and although I found it worked *almost* fine with NVDA, it did not work at all with JAWS, which I'm not entirely ready to give up using or anything. So, I decided to switch to the 52 (ESR) version, as recommended by many people and accessibility blogs. Instalation seemed to go fine, but I found that although I could go to a website without problems using ctrl-l, and sometimes search for something on that site, links would not activate with the enter key-press. JAWS definitely recognises that a link is there and I think the cursor is in the right place. I can also activate the links using the context menu, in a new tab or window. But enter simply does nothing. Another weird thing I noticed is that when this is happening, alt-f4 will not close firefox, and I must do it with the programme's menu option. I uninstalled Firefox altogether this time, as the first time I just tried to install v.52 over v.57 without uninstalling the programme, which is *supposed* to work. But starting fresh is sometimes good, right? Well, to my joy, the programme (firefox) seemed to be working great for a couple of days. This afternoon though, when I loaded the browser to check the mobile facebook site, once again, links would not activate with the enter key and the programme wouldn't close normally. I'm not positive these two things are related, but thinking about it now, I almost always close programmes with alt-f4 and I'm quite sure this is how I always closed firefox until now. Anyone have any clues as to what the devil might be going on? I'm going to have to switch permanently to Chrome if this keeps up. I even went to internet Explorer for a bit, but a lot of sites I go to regularly, like goodreads.com, simply do not work properly with that browser anymore, and it's very definitely being phased out by mS in favour of Edge, so I'd rather just put it to sleep permanently. Firefox has been my go-to browser for years anyway and I don't think I've ever had any issues like this, until now. Thanks. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
