I notice the same thing with Jaws 13 and Windows 7 on my netbook. When 
I'm on the web, I get frequent silences. Sometimes the whole system 
crashes; other times, it just seems to be the browser. I also notice 
that it's much more likely to happen when I'm typing fast in an edit 
field. And I have the problem of Jaws losing focus a lot too. The 
silences happen more often with Firefox, but they also happens fairly 
frequently in Internet Explorer, and the lack of focus is more common in 
Internet Explorer.

When the browser goes silent, I find that pressing Windows-m for the 
desktop or alt+tab to move focus to another application seems to help. 
If I leave focus in the browser, speech never returns, but if I move 
focus to something else, speech usually comes back after a while, as 
little as 30 seconds and as much as a minute or two (literally a minute 
or two).

I agree with Jeff on the SMA. It's really hard to want to throw good 
money after bad on such a buggy product. I'd be a lot more forgiving if 
the product were low cost to begin with, but it's not, and telling 
customers that problems will be solved in the next version (something 
I've been told repeatedly when I've called FS and something that rarely 
happens) is a cop out.

Rant over. Back to regularly scheduled browsing with intermissions for 
speech crashes and lost focus.


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