Only have tried Chrome as an alternative, in a few cases, for my browsing. Might be OK, though I am not fully confident with its behavior.
Recently, I have tested it for playing the online version of our local radio over here. It plays OK in Internet Explorer. But when the same website is loaded in Chrome, I experience a couple of issues. First of all, the arrow keys - which are used for raising and lowering the volume of the playback, are EXTREMELY slow in response. You press the arrow-key, and it takes something like 5seconds or more, before the volume actually is adjusted. In Internet Explorer, the volume adjustment is applied imediately. Alt-tabbing away from the Chrome window, and then back into it, focus is more often than desireable lost. I still have to figure how to get back to focus. When such loss of focus occurs in other browsers, I have learned to hit Alt-D, to get to the address bar, and then F6, to get back to the contents window. Just about always works. But in Chrome, Alt-d takes me to the address bar, yet F6 does seem to have no effect. I tried to hit the tab-key, hoping it would take me anywhere, but it did seem to have no effect, though I gave it several seconds. As the radio station plays, the current song is being displayed and updated, a given spot on the page. In both Internet Explorer and Firefox, this section of the page is continiously being updated, and WinEyes works just fine in reading it. With Chrome, the lines are stuck, where they are when the page is initially loaded. 15 minutes later, it still shows the song that played back when the page was opened, and no updates takes place. Attempting to close the Chrome window, when the radio plays, often results in nothing happening. Have to open Task Manager, and manually kill Chrome to stop the playback. It might be my computer, and it could be the technology used from the radio station. But it works in the two other browsers, on this very computer, so have a feeling there must be something about Chrome. Could be some setup issues, yet I do not know where to look for a fix. If this behavior is general for Chrome, I would have kept my hands off. For the little browsing activity I have tested Chrome with, it seems OK enough. But for the radio playing, it is close to useless. In a few cases, when I have had trouble with certain info not showing up on given websites, under either IExplorer or Firefox, I have given Chrome a go. Hope was that it would show things the other browsers were unable to process. A known issue, where some pages work better under one browser than the other. Still, till date, I have never seen any of these pages behave better under Chrome. Allright, my experience, with my set of browsing. I do notice others reporting it to work fine, so won't be able to tell why I am seeing these issues. Just wanted to let you know my findings, that you at least might be prepared. On 10/3/2017 3:02 PM, Steve Jacobson via Talk wrote: > Tom, > > Let me add my voice to John's. I've also used Chrome some and found it to > work all right. I have not gotten comfortable with using the equivalent of > "Favorites," but suspect that is my lack of experience. I had one case on a > slow computer where a website was not useable due to very, very slow > response with Internet Explorer, and when I switched to Chrome that same > website worked fine. I think it is definitely worth a look if you have not > done so yet. The interface is very different, though, so don't let that put > you off. > > Best regards, > > Steve Jacobson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Talk > [mailto:talk-bounces+steve.jacobson=visi....@lists.window-eyes.com] On > Behalf Of john schwery via Talk > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 3:47 AM > To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> > Cc: john schwery <jschw...@centurylink.net> > Subject: Re: Chrome, was: Firefox Updated and Unable to Navigate > > Tom, Chrome works ok. > > At 11:50 PM 10/2/2017, you wrote: >> Has anyone given Chrome a serious look? I've never even tried it. So >> I'm curious as to whether I should even bother. >> >> Thanks, >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/jschwery%40ce > nturylink.net. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/steve.jacobson > %40visi.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/trailerdavid%40hotmail.com. > For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > . > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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