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I'm very pleased to announce that Cache the World, our re-architecture of the Firefox accessibility engine to improve performance, reliability and correctness, is now enabled by default on all platforms with today's release of Firefox 113. blog.mozilla.org/accessibility… #accessibility #a11y

Firefox 113 Significantly Boosts Accessibility Performance - Mozilla Accessibility

About 5 years ago Mozilla shipped Firefox Quantum, an upgrade that included significant performance improvements for most Firefox users. Unfortunately, Firefox Quantum didn’t improve performance for people who use screen … Read more
Asa Dotzler (Mozilla Accessibility)
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Jamie Teh
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@sundress Thank you. It's been a huge effort, but we're really excited to finally be able to get it out to all users.
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Sukil Etxenike
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Sukil Etxenike
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Yay, it works! Of course, the first thing I tested it with was this monster, and it loaded in like 10 seconds! tc39.es/ecma262/
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Hendrik Steyn
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Cool stuff and thanks for all the hard work you guys did. Now I can try Firefox again!
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Marek Macko
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And it's great. It means that my brief encounter with Brave is over. Thanks for the great work.
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Jamie Teh
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Jamie Teh
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@pax It should be enabled by default in 113 downloads and updates. If it isn't, please let me know.
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Dickson Tan
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This makes a huge difference, thanks for making this happen. This is a very strong case for using Firefox for screen readers users.

Btw, I've been seeing an intermittent bug where text in edit boxes isn't read and NVDA just says blank when arrowing through an edit field, I'm on Firefox 114b2 and have the cache enabled. Seen while composing a Slack message and a GitHub comment. Wondering if its a potential regression?

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Jamie Teh
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@neurrone I've seen that too, but only in the last couple of days and only in Slack. Restarting NVDA seems to fix it, so not sure if it's NVDA or Firefox. I'll look into it.
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Dickson Tan
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Thanks. I think I've seen it in GitHub comments too but I'll confirm again if I see it happening.
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