Re: [orca-list] firefox - responsiveness and youtube accessibility

[Daniel Dalton <d dalton iinet net au>]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Jason White wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 02:43:35PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
> > I find that firefox doesn't respond very quickly to a key press. Eg. tab,
> > h for heading or insert + left/right.
> > Is this because I only have a 800 mhz machine with 256 mb ram or because
> > orca has problems?
>
> It is because you have insufficient RAM and a slow CPU in that machine.

OK, I have another box... I have a laptop set up and ready to go with 512 
mb ram and 1.8 ghz cpu... Is that enough?
Or what is a very good machine to run gnome under?

> It's time for a hardware upgrade. Seriously, trying to run Gnome, Orca and
> Firefox with 256mb RAM isn't going to work reliably.

No, your right... I just bought this box for $30 and am waiting before I 
install linux (dual boot it) on my good machine with 1 gb of ram since I'm 
not sure if this will void the worrenty...
I know how to set up a dual boot system and I'm fairly confident with 
linux so I'm just worried about the worrenty as I said...

Is 1 gb ram and dual core 2.1 ghz enough?

What kind of responsiveness can I expect? As good as JAWS for windows 
provides with firefox?

Thanks,

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Daniel Dalton

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