I don't know much about what's under the hood but yes, Firefox is open
source so you could download the code and poke through it, even
contribute bug fixes to the project. That said, anybody who has that
level of skill at writing code for complex multi-platform apps is
probably already swimming in job offers and requests for help. I suspect
it's just one of those efficiency things where the initial
implementation is simulating the entire molecule instead of the atom or
collapsing a kingdom to save a nail. Pick your euphemism. It's easy to
get inefficient with complex stuff and that gets weeded out over time.
First they try to just get it to work, then work reasonably fast.
CB
On 2/8/13 6:48 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
John, these might seem like stupid questions, but I can't resist
asking them. What is it, exactly, that makes Firefox be so sluggish
and do the busy thing so frequently? I ask this for two reasons.
1. I know that it doesn't use the same webkit that is used by
Lightning, Safari, and Chrome, but having said that, it just seems
kind of odd to me that this would be consistently happening. I wonder
in general where the leak is coming in, and is it more a processor
thing, or more a memory leak.
2. I might have mis-understood, but wasn't Firefox open source, at
least at one time in the game? If that's the case, who's to say we
couldn't find someone who is blind using Voiceover to have a look at
it. Also, I know Apple is very funny about providing source code, and
rightfully so. I'd just suspect, wouldn't it be slightly harder for
the Mozilla devs to really do much without the coding of Voiceover
specifically so that they could compare code back and forth, and maybe
in one of the two codes find what is causing the breakage.
Chris Gilland.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Panarese" <jpanar...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: Status of busies in Firefox?
I believe it is available. Firefox is usable with VoiceOver. It is a
bit sluggish in some instances, but it is getting there. If you have
patience, I would give it a try and encourage the developers to keep
improving VoiceOver access.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
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On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Kerri <shalo...@shaw.ca> wrote:
I have another question about fire fox. If it is accessible, I used
web vissum (when I used the c) to solve captchas, does is this
available for mac?Thanks.
On 2013-02-07, at 5:43 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland"
<clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Last I heard, Firefox still was not that great. I hear it was sort
of, ish! doable, and certainly in a pinch would work, but still had
a really really long way to go. I hear that even on systems with a
butt load of ram, it still says busy busy almost constantly. I just
wondered if anyone has any more information as for the current
state. Is it still doing this quite a bit, or is it pretty much
taken care of where now, it is about as quick as using say,
Lightning, Chrome, or Safari.
Chris Gilland.
Founder of CLG Productions
http://www.clgproductions.com
E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com
Phone: 803-760-7136
Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185
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