Hi, Yes, Samantha is likely your problem. I switched my System Voice to Samantha and experienced the same issue as you. With Alex, Chrome has seldom had any issues and does actually behave better for some elements on certain web-pages. In fact, Chrome is easier to use within some of Apple's own Knowledge Base articles compared to Safari.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-03-01, at 5:28 PM, ROBERT CARTER <nc5rn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It is really crashing. A Chrome quit unexpectedly message is displayed and a > crash report is created. This seems to be happening whether VoiceOver is on > or not. I am using Samantha as my Mac system voice and so that is what > chromevox is using. Do you all think that Samantha is the problem? Perhaps I > will temporarily change the system voice back to Alex and see if that solves > the problem. I must say that I am not impressed at this point. > > Robert Carter > > > On Mar 1, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Are you sure that ChromeVox is really crashing or are you just outside the >> HTML area that ChromeVox reads? Try pressing cmd-n to make Chrome open a >> new window to determine if things begin speaking again. Also, strange >> things can occur when you have both ChromeVox and VO running at the same >> time. Google recommends that you turn off VO when using ChromeVox. It's >> not consistently an issue but seems to cause erratic behaviour when both >> engines are running. I was just at a Google Apps Summit Monday and Tuesday >> of this week where I let some Googlers know about some of the limitations of >> Chrome. I did, though, find that some of the limitations are just me. I'm >> so used to VO that navigating with ChromeVox is different than what I'm >> accustomed to. Too many things for this old brain to remember with VO, >> ChromeVox, JAWS, Wife's name, all that sort of thing. >> >> Anyway, if you really want to remove ChromeVox, make sure that VO is on, go >> up to the Window menu and choose Extensions. Use Vox keys to navigate >> through whatever extensions you've added to Chrome and right beside the >> Enable checkbox for ChromeVox Extension will be the Remove from Chrome >> button. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-03-01, at 11:02 AM, Robert Carter <nc5rn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I know how to disable the Chromevox extension, but how does one remove it >>> completely? I don't find this information in the user guide. >>> >>> Robert Carter >>> On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:28 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I was experiencing the same behavior. This is why I just stopped using >>>> the extension all together. This was over a year ago mind you, I'm a >>>> little surprised the problem still persists. >>>> >>>> Ricardo Walker >>>> rica...@appletothecore.info >>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore >>>> www.appletothecore.info >>>> >>>> On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:21 AM, Robert Carter <nc5rn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have been experimenting with the Chromevox extension running the Chrome >>>>> browser on my MacBook Pro. I am finding that with Chromevox running, >>>>> chrome frequently crashes. It sometimes takes VoiceOver downl with it. Is >>>>> anybody else having this issue? 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