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The new fire fox is extremely slow while using windows while using speech recognition on windows

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darkmarkIII
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The old browser worked fantastic with windows speech recognition would ever since the launch of the new fire fox is extremely slow, like dial up browsers slow. If I shut off speech recognition fire fox returns to being fast but I rely on voice commands for reversing due to disability. What’s going on with a new browser and windows speech?

The old browser worked fantastic with windows speech recognition would ever since the launch of the new fire fox is extremely slow, like dial up browsers slow. If I shut off speech recognition fire fox returns to being fast but I rely on voice commands for reversing due to disability. What’s going on with a new browser and windows speech?

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Shadow110
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Go to the Firefox 3 Bar Menu --> Help ? --> Troubleshooting Information Page and take a look in the Accessibility section if accessibility is set to "true" there. if yes, go to the Firefox 3 Bar Menu --> Options --> Privacy & Security panel and under Permissions check the setting to Prevent Accessibility Services from accessing your browser. Restart Firefox

Still issues try :

Please : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles then https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings TEST....... If no issues then Extensions which need to be added back in 1 at a time and tested ..... Or it is your Profile : Make a new one and test ...: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

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