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Internet Explorer versus Mozilla Firefox

Sadly, I've come to the realization that Dragon NaturallySpeaking just works better with Internet Explorer than with Mozilla Firefox. Here are a few examples:

• In Internet Explorer you can speak all or some of the link text to activate the link. In Firefox, you have to speak the whole link text.
• In Internet Explorer if you speak a word that matches to more than one link, you get a little arrow that underlines each occurrence. In Firefox, nothing happens and you have to say the whole link text.
• I cannot get Dragon to accurately activate any of the bookmark buttons on my bookmarks tool bar.
• In Internet Explorer you can speak a URL by prefacing HTTP or www and Dragon will format what you speak correctly. I cannot get Firefox to replicate this behavior reliably.

I have not tried using Firefox 3 yet with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

If you are going to use Internet Explorer, you should upgrade to Internet Explorer 7. This new version adds a lot of safety and convenience features. In addition, you should probably download and install the Internet Explorer add-in IE 7 Pro, which you can read about in this life hacker link.