And, if you press Enter on Continue?
This message often comes up, if you are trying to alter system settings, or when performing adjustments that will affect what Windows consider elementary processes. Usually, pressing the Continue, will force the action to be performed. Hence, may you try doing so, and come back should things not work out. On 10/26/2017 10:22 AM, Nick Sarames via Talk wrote: > I'm not sure if I am implimenting the work-around correctly, but I'm > getting an error message saying something like: > > access denied - you will need to provide administrator permission to > hange these settings. Click continue to complete this operation. > > On 10/26/2017 2:08 AM, David via Talk wrote: >> Debby, >> >> You are right. Shortly after my posting the workaround, yet another >> version (56.01) came out from Mozilla, and swoopsy, there all >> accessibility flew out the windows. The recent version of Firefox, in >> very short and sharp words, is USELESS for WinEyes users. >> >> >> I personally ended up going for the business version, as someone kindly >> suggested. So far, have had positive experience with it, and find it >> promissing to not having to fool around with new who-knows-why updates, >> every six weeks or so. >> >> >> If you seemingly have got Firefox up running in its safe mode, maybe I >> have a tiny bit of helpful info for you. Instead of having to manually >> remembering to start Firefox with the added Command line parameter, it >> should be possible to have it do so by hitting a hotkey. Please note, I >> have not tested this myself, so take it for whatever it might be worth >> to you. >> >> >> 1. Go to your Desktop. >> >> 2. Focus the Firefox Icon. >> >> 3. Hit the Shift-F10, alternatively, the App-key; and choose Properties. >> >> 4. Go down to the editbox where it asks for the program name, and insert >> the -safe-mode parameter after the name, separated with a space. Please >> note the dashes in the parameter. >> >> 5. While you are in this dialog, you might want to tab over to the >> hotkey part, and define yourself a quick-key for loading Firefox. For >> instance, I have defined Alt-Ctrl-F, which is quick and smooth way of >> loading the software from anywhere. >> >> 6. Tab to OK, and hit Enter. >> >> >> If everything goes well, you now should have Firefox start up in safe >> mode, every time you hit your new hotkey. >> >> >> Plese, may you be ware, in cases where you press Enter on a link in an >> Email, Firefox will load directly. In such cases, if Firefox is not yet >> loaded, it will load in normal mode. You hence might want to always keep >> a Firefox window, loaded in Safe Mode, open on your screen. Even a blank >> page should do. >> >> >> Again, should you find the workarounds fail, perhaps it might be time to >> give the business edition a spin. >> >> >> For the records, I installed it directly on top of my version 56, and it >> came up with all my history and favorites (bookmarks) ready to go. >> Should you want to make sure, you might follow the instructions Rod >> posted a few days ago, for backing up your bookmarks from firefox, prior >> to running the installation. It all was done in less than five minutes >> here, and it is good to have an otherwise stabil and nice browser back >> in business. >> >> >> I do take the opportunity to apologize to all, for any inconveniences my >> initially posted workarounds might have caused. They were clearly >> working at the moment, but Mozilla wanted it the other way around. Even >> sighted people complain, and yet, the updates are forced on you, even >> with the updating feature turned off in the Firefox settings. Nothing >> more to do. And yet, so far the business eedition might be the reliable >> way to go for the next few months. That is, if you don't want to switch >> to another screen reader, hoping that Mozilla won't break all support >> for assisistive technology altoghether in some version to come. >> >> >> On 10/26/2017 5:18 AM, Debby Franson via Talk wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I tried the Firefox safe mode, and it worked. I could browse the page >>> as expected and I could get to the menus. I will need to start FF this >>> way, because, when I closed the browser and launched it again, I was >>> back to the ding with the silent treatment and no menus. >>> >>> Debby >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> For membership options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/nicksarames%40msn.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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