I should add that I wasn't responding to Andy, although his post is below mine.  I was responding to Brian and Shaun, who have been unrelentingly critical of what Mozilla is doing.  We now have two posts today about significant improvements in version 58 of Firefox.

 

Gene 

----- Original Message -----

From: Gene

Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 4:24 PM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] Latest Firefox is extremely slow

Amazing how a legitimate course of action by Mozilla generates such endless negative comments.  Also, what is going on is about much more than security.  Did anyone who is sending all these negative comments read the blog about this that reproduced a message from Mozilla about two months ago?  It explained in detail, that as web sites become increasingly interactive, the old ways of presenting web pages will be increasingly inadequate and that is one reason they are making the changes. 

 

The blog entry also said that it is the goal of Mozilla to restore speed to its previous level as work continues on the browser and we have seen a message today saying that speed is a good deal better in version 58. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Andy

Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 3:20 PM

To: nvda@nvda.groups.io

Subject: Re: [nvda] Latest Firefox is extremely slow

Or Google Chrome.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Everiss" <sm.everiss@...>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Latest Firefox is extremely slow


>I am done with mozilla..
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> If they say that screen readers are the problem I will use water fox which
> as all the stuff I need.
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> True it will eventually use outdated addons but so what.
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> With this new processer bug fix, I suspect firefox will be even worse.
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> On 4/01/2018 10:41 p.m., Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io wrote:
>> Incidentally 57 latest still completely fails in my windows 7, so I'm
>> back on 52 esr. Maybe by the time they get to version 60 ythey might get
>> it torun on windows 7. Ahem.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> bglists@...
>> Sent via blueyonder.
>> Please address personal email to:-
>> briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff'
>> in the display name field.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Canazzi" <aa2vm@...>
>> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 6:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nvda] Latest Firefox is extremely slow
>>
>>
>>> Hi Group,
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>>> I have the latest 57 version, I think its 5 or 6 as in 57.005 or 57.006
>>> and I don't see this sluggishness.
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>>> On 1/4/2018 12:47 AM, Lino Morales wrote:
>>>> Yes. Run the version 52 ESR or simply wait till V 58 comes out.
>>>> Download 58 beta build 13 also if you'd like. That's what I'm running
>>>> now. Its not as slow as V577.3.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/4/2018 12:34 AM, Edhoari Setiyoso wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried Firefox for couple of weeks now and it feels so sluggish. I
>>>>> think it began with Firefox Quantum, Unfortunately the solution that I
>>>>> found in the mozilla forum is to prevent access for accessibility,
>>>>> effectively rendering it useless with NVDA. Does anyone here has
>>>>> another solution?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> They Ask Me If I'm Happy; I say Yes.
>>> They ask: "How Happy are You?"
>>> I Say: "I'm as happy as a stow away chimpanzee on a banana boat!"
>>>
>>>
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