Thursday, May 15, 2008

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.

1 comment:

Molly said...

Did you try Firefox with the mouseless browsing extensions installed?

Also, I don't agree with your recommendation to upgrade to Internet Explorer seven. The last time I checked there were bogs with IE 7 & DNS. My system would crash every time I try to close a window. I don't know if these bugs have been fixed or not, do you have problems with IE 7?