Re: [orca-list] Orca very chatty after upgrade to Firefox 57

[Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk>]

Thanks Peter.

I unticked everything on the preferences page and now things seem a lot 
better.

Thanks,

Nick


On 23/01/18 10:43, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since Firefox 57 there is so called new tab page. Right when you open a 
> new tab or a new window in Firefox it pops up. It contains search entry 
> field, the sites you are visiting frequently, sites you might have 
> visited recently and some Firefox specific headlines.
> You can customize what this new tab page displays after clicking new tab 
> page preferences button right on that page.
> If you wish to restore pre Firefox 57 behaviour, you can do it through 
> Menubar -> Edit -> Preferences and set a page of your choice to load at 
> startup. I guess you do know you can also type about:blank in, so it 
> will just start empty.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> 2018-01-23 10:20 GMT+01:00 Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk 
> <mailto:nick microlitesoftware co uk>>:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I've noticed since moving to Firefox 57 that every time I start
>     Firefox, Orca announces a lot of stuff being loaded - and not just
>     my home page.
>
>     Is this Firefox loading more tabs / recent websites in the background?
>
>     If so, any idea how to turn it off? This is a machine with limited
>     resources and I want Firefox to just load my home page and not go
>     off and start loading lots of other pages it thinks I might want!
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Nick
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