[nabs-l] watch out! it's another ridiculous update from Google

Thu May 23 22:32:44 UTC 2013

Hi Chris and all,
there are a couple of steps you can take to prevent Firefox from
crashing, freezing, and generally being annoying, one of which I just
found out today. The first thing you can do is to disable any plugins
that control flash. To do this, go into the add-ons manager, which can
be found in the tools menu of Firefox. Go to add-ons and click on it.
Then, tab once to get to the combo box where all your types of add-ons
are displayed. Select plugins, then tab to the list of the ones that
are installed. The two plugins that should be disabled to prevent
flash content from slowing down and crashing Firefox are Shockwave,
and Silverlite. If you have Quicktime installed, you may want to
disable these as well. to disable any plugin, simply point to it, hit
your applications key, and go to disable. Your browsing experience
should now be enhanced, although you obviously won't be able to use it
for things like youtube.
Now for the second really cool thing which I was told about today.
There is an add-on which can be installed for Firefox called Adblock
Plus. You can find it by doing a google search. Once installed, this
blocks a lot of extraneous content, like google ads and such. But what
I didn't know was that there are also other scripts to make it block
other things as well. If you visit this website,
http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions
there is a script called Fanboy's social media blocking list. That may
not be the exact title, but that's the gist. In any case, if you do a
Jaws search for Fanboy, you'll find it. Once you click the link to
subscribe to this script, all the Facebook, Twitter, etc. widgets will
be gone. This, I've found, has been a huge help. Any time a page would
load with any of those kinds of widgets, which, really, is the
majority of sites nowadays, Jaws would hang up for at least 10
seconds.
now my browsing experience, with these two safeguards in place, is
nearly flawless. I would encourage anyone who's having trouble with
Firefox to try these fixes and see if you get desirable results. I
should also point out that the latest version, which is 22.1, I
believe, is a lot more stable than several of the previous versions. I
have heard people recommend that the blind should use a severely
outdated version of Firefox to enhance their browsing experience, like
3.6 or something, but I would not recommend that. Not only will your
add-ons most likely not be supported, but there are probably big
security holes in those versions by now as well.

On 5/23/13, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not only that, but it will effect all of us as blind computer users--that
> is, until Google makes Chrome accessible.
>
> Chris Nusbaum, Co-Chair
> Public Relations Committee
> Maryland Association of Blind Students
> Phone: (443) 547-2409
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Josh Gregory
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:54 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] watch out! it's another ridiculous update from Google
>
> I hate to say this but this is going to drastically affect the notetakers.
> I
> mean the electronic ones with the displays.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 23, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Aleeha Dudley <blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I am running IE 10.
>>
>> If you look on the front page of your email, under the list of offered
> services like drive and calendar, you will see a message, if you are
> running
> Internet explorer, you will see a message that says your browser will soon
> no longer be supported. Under that message, you will see another line of
> text that says upgrade to a modern browser such as Google chrome. The
> browser link takes you to a site which will tell you what browser you are
> winning and will also list three other browsers that are more modern than
> yours. If I had not been bored and using my arrow keys to navigate the
> page,
> I would have never noticed this message.
>> I'll try to find another source for this information.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On May 23, 2013, at 17:22, Desiree Oudinot <turtlepower17 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, a link would be nice. It was my understanding that Google was
>>> going to stop supporting IE 8, not IE in general. I thought versions
>>> newer than 8 would be ok.
>>>
>>> On 5/23/13, Anjelina Cruz <anjelinac26 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am a bit behind. When was this info released? Can someone please
>>>> post a link about these possible changes?
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> On 5/23/13, ryan bishop <ryan.bishop96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Wait, are you saying there only going to expect Google crome?
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aleeha
>>>>> Dudley
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:31 PM
>>>>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>>>>> Subject: [nabs-l] watch out! it's another ridiculous update from
>>>>> Google
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>    For those using Internet explorer as your browser and using any
>>>>> Google-related app, your browser will soon no longer be supported.
>>>>> This means that you could easily lose access to your mail and any
>>>>> other google app.
>>>>> Just another reason why we should fight against the adoption of
>>>>> Google products at our colleges and universities!!!!!
>>>>> Just FYI.
>>>>> Aleeha
>>>>>
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