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Pele West
Hi Everyone
I use Windows 7, NVDA 2019.3.1 and Firefox 68.5.0ESR. It works fine on one machine. I have just installed NVDA on another Windows 7 machine and, when I load Firefox, it says the title of the page and then keeps saying "Unknown". This machine had a previous version of Firefox which was updated today to 68.5.0ESR. I created a portable version of NVDA using the first machine and installed it on the second one. Can anyone advise me how to make it work on the second machine? Thanks pele West
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David Griffith
This also happened to me and I dealt with it by installing Waterfox at that time as a slimmed down version of FireFox with at the time better accessibility.
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I have now pretty much moved to using Brave full time now so I am not quite sure of the full status of Waterfox. I relaunched it just now and it appears to be still OK. David Griffith
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From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pele West Sent: 13 February 2020 13:09 To: NVDA <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Subject: [nvda] NVDA and Firefox Hi Everyone I use Windows 7, NVDA 2019.3.1 and Firefox 68.5.0ESR. It works fine on one machine. I have just installed NVDA on another Windows 7 machine and, when I load Firefox, it says the title of the page and then keeps saying "Unknown". This machine had a previous version of Firefox which was updated today to 68.5.0ESR. I created a portable version of NVDA using the first machine and installed it on the second one. Can anyone advise me how to make it work on the second machine? Thanks pele West
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Gene
This sounds to me like the longstanding problem
that some programs, when you uninstall them, unregister some.dll files.
NVDA has a utility to correct the problem. Open the menu with NVDA key
n. Find and open the tools submenu. Find and run the com registry
fixing tool. That may not be the exact name but its close enough that you
will know it. The tool reregisters the .dll files, if they have become
unregistered.
Gene
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I have now pretty much moved to using Brave full time now so I am not quite sure of the full status of Waterfox. I relaunched it just now and it appears to be still OK. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: nvda@nvda.groups.io <nvda@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pele West Sent: 13 February 2020 13:09 To: NVDA <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Subject: [nvda] NVDA and Firefox Hi Everyone I use Windows 7, NVDA 2019.3.1 and Firefox 68.5.0ESR. It works fine on one machine. I have just installed NVDA on another Windows 7 machine and, when I load Firefox, it says the title of the page and then keeps saying "Unknown". This machine had a previous version of Firefox which was updated today to 68.5.0ESR. I created a portable version of NVDA using the first machine and installed it on the second one. Can anyone advise me how to make it work on the second machine? Thanks pele West
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Quentin Christensen
RIght enough Gene - "COM Registration Fixing Tool". And yes, that's what I would have suggested trying as well.
On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 1:07 AM Gene <gsasner@...> wrote:
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Pele West
Hi Gene and Quentin
Thanks. I tried the Com Registration tool without success. I am going to uninstall and reinstall Firefox and try Waterfox. Pele
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