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Why isn't "Edit > Speech > Start Speaking" available in Firefox for Mac OS X?

Peter Rukavina
Peter Rukavina
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With Chrome and Safari on my Mac OS X desktop (El Capitan), there's a menu option under Edit > Speech to "Start Speaking" that will use the operating system's text-to-speech capabilities to read the selected text.

This option is missing from Firefox.

Why?

With Chrome and Safari on my Mac OS X desktop (El Capitan), there's a menu option under Edit > Speech to "Start Speaking" that will use the operating system's text-to-speech capabilities to read the selected text. This option is missing from Firefox. Why?
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Wesley Branton
Wesley Branton
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Please ensure that you have any addons or plugins associated with this service installed and enabled.

If that doesn't work, please file a bug report on Bugzilla so that the Firefox developers can further investigate the issue.

Thanks.

Peter Rukavina
Peter Rukavina Question owner
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Wesley Branton said

Please ensure that you have any addons or plugins associated with this service installed and enabled.

This isn't an addon or plugin-related issues: it's an issue of why an OS-supported feature isn't available in Firefox in the same way it is available for most other Mac applications by default.

Wesley Branton
Wesley Branton
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If you file a bug report using the link in my previous post, the developers of Firefox can certainly take a look into the issue and explore implementing this feature in future versions of Firefox.

Thanks again.