Re: [orca-list] Next biggest Firefox problem?

[Trevor Saunders <trev saunders gmail com>]

Hi,

sorry about the delay.
how much of this has been accepted upstream?

> I'm pretty happy with Firefox now on my machine.  I ran the JAWs demo
> for 40 minutes yesterday, and the most glaring difference to me was
> how snappy JAWs was.  However, I can see the caret in Firefox, and I
> can tell you JAWs often had no clue where it was!  I think both of
> these differences are mostly due to JAWs running in a "virtual
> buffer".

yes, from what I've seen jaws is pretty broken with firefox, and really wants IE :(
nvda supports firefox very well, and is probably worth looking at.

> So, I would like to get the Vinux Firefox team looking into speeding
> up access to Firefox.  I don't know where the bottlenecks are now, but
> it's hard to believe that on a 2 gigahertz machine that reading some
> text and links could have perceptible delay, unless there are some
> nasty N-squared loops or poorly chosen sleep and buffer delays.  I
> suspect some of this is already somewhat understood, so if you have
> any advice for where to start, let me know.

not really,  apply the profiler?  It may be in ipc too.

Trev

> Thanks,
> Bill
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