Okay, so when Firefox 52(or was it 53?) dropped ALSA support, I, like many anti-pulsers switched to Firefox ESR 52 in hopes that by the time ALSA was dropped from ESR, there would be an easy solution to getting sound working in Firefox without installing PulseAudio. Firefox-ESR 60's recent addition to Debian Testing/Unstable forced me to seek out such a solution, and I've been running Firefox 61 with apulse for sound for a couple of weeks now. Of course, this also means dealing with the changes introduced by Quantum, which broke some of my extensions outright, forced other extensions to overhaul their interfaces in a way that makes them, in my opinion at least, less accessible, or made changes to the core of firefox that make me want an extension to restore the classic behavior. As addons.mozilla.org isn't the most screen reader friendly site to begin with, and I'd rather avoid sifting through a bunch of similar add-ons for the one that's actually blind usable(and most google results providing advice on which extension to use for which tasks being written from a sighted prospective making it hard to avoid the ones that are utter junk), I thought I'd ask on this mailing list in hopes some of my fellow Blind Linux Users have already found solutions to some of the issues I'm having. For years, I used NoScript to keep JavaScript and other rich web features that are mostly used for generating useless eye candy from getting in the way and tripping up Orca while retaining the ability to selectively allow JavaScript and its brethren when they provide vital functionality for a site to function. I was really fond of NoScript Classic adding a submenu to the context menu that would allow me to block or temporarily allow scripts from individual domains, but this feature seems to be missing in NoScript Quantum(there's still a context menu item, but it's now just a shortcut to NoScript's preferences), and if it's possible to toggle allow/deny permissions for individual domains in the new NoScript, how to do so in a keyboard and blind accessible manner isn't obvious. I've tried ScriptSafe, which has the context submenu with allo/blcok options but it seems to only have the equivalent to NoScript Classic's "Allow All this Page" and "Revoke all temporay permissions." There are numerous NoScript alternatives, but I'm not sure which are even worth trying, so I've been keeping a tab open to about:config filter on javascript.enable and simply toggling the option as needed, but that's an all or nothing feature, and I'm sure having about:config open all the time is considered a security issue. I've been using a user agent switcher extension for years simply because, in many cases, the mobile version of a website removes a lot of junk I don't want Orca to read, but which there is no easy way to skip over, and some websites will automatically redirect you to their desktop version no matter how many times you add m. in front of the domain part of the URL or click on the mobile version link. The extension I was using has no quantum compatible version, and my attempts to find a replacement lead me to Firefox's Responsive Design Mode, which in addition to having a clunkier interface, doesn't work reliably for the website that bumped the user agent switcher from something I need every now and then to something I use daily. The website in question is an Internet forum, and while RDM allows me to reliably load the forum index in mobile view, by the time I've loaded the first thread I want to read, or the thread list of the second subforum I want to check for new posts, I'm dealing with the desktop version, and I know from experience that getting the mobile version of any page on that forum to load after a page loads in desktop view requires either letting my session on the site to expire or to reload firefox. So, anyone know an easy way to get the desktop version of Firefox 61 to present itself as the mobile version that lasts past one or two ctrl+shift+enters to open a link in a new tab and switch to the new tab? I've already installed Default Bookmark Folder to restore ctrl+D to saving new bookmarks to the Bookmarks Menu by default, but I'd like a non-extension way of doing this, or at least an extension that doesn't at the first few dozen glimpses seem to have no keyboard accessible way of reaching the part of its preferences where you set its most important option. I've never liked the way so many websites save cookies even if they serve nothing but static pages and have no user account features, and never found an extension that I felt did a good job of making it easy to set permissions more granular than Firefox's allow all, allow all first party, or allow none option and its delete all or delete none style of clean-up. Before upgarding to Firfox-ESR 60 and then Firefox 61, I was in the habit of regularly goint to the privacy tab of perferences, using Orca's navigational hotkeys to jump to the show cookies button, and deleting everything except cookies my perpetual log-ins depend on, but with how Mozilla overhauled Firefox's preferences, I can't do that anymore. The manage data dialog that replaced the view cookies dialog, instead of having a simple list where I scroll to the item I want an press delete to get rid of it, now has a multi-select list, Orca has no easy way of telling me what is or isn't selected, and the only deletion options are to delete all or delete selected, and the delete key now does nothing. If I want to delete all cookies except those needed for perpetual log-ins, I have to individual scroll to the cookie I want to delete, tab to remove selected, press enter, then tab back to the list and repeat, and even selecting adjacent cookies in the list without getting something I want to keep is is prohibitvely difficult. Ideally, I'd want something that adds a context submenu ala NoScript Classic, but for cookies, so I could permanently allow cookies needed for perpetual log-ins, tempoararily allow cookies from sites with temporary log-ins or which become non-functional if cookies are blocked, and block everything else, but something that allows me to delete all but a list of protected cookies with a few keystrokes would be nice, or even just something that restores the classic view cookies dialog. And I suppose if anyone here has other Firefox extensions that they feel make life easier for the blind web surfer, I'd be happy to hear about them. I've never used that many extensions, and when I went blind, I abandoned most of the ones I was using back when I could see because they either weren't accessible, or blindness eliminated their usefulness(for example, I got rid of FlashBlock when I went blind because blindness removed any incentive to have Flash installed in the first place), so aside from the above mentioned Default Bookmark Folder extension, the only one I currently have is YouTube Ad Auto skipper so I don't have to fumble around for the skip ad button when a video ad interrupts the video I'm listening to. -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright Bachelor of Computer Science President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list