Harry,


In Firefox, you can go into Tools > Downloads (alt+t, d) to open a 
dialog showing your current downloads so you can check on their 
progress. You can use alt+tab to move between the Library/Downloads 
screen and whatever else you were doing in the browser.


As far as I know, there isn't a beep to let you know the download is 
complete, but you can just check the download status to know.


Ciao


On 9/30/2016 9:55 AM, Harry Brown wrote:
> Hi Ana,
> Thank you so much for this tip! It worked, but now there is another 
> problem, and that is, in internet explorer, it tells me the 
> percentages of the file that has been downloaded, but in firefox, when 
> I press jaws key b it doesn't read me the window, so, either way, I 
> cannot hear the percentages, so I don't even know if anything is being 
> downloaded, and how much of the file has been downloaded. It also will 
> not play a sound to tell me when the download is finnished.
> As for your second comment, I don't hate change, but when something 
> doesn't work, which I need to work, then I hate it, because the 
> product is not usable for me.
> Harry
>
> On 9/29/2016 10:15 AM, Ana G wrote:
>> Another way to download files in Firefox is to tab to the file/link, 
>> press the context key, then down-arrow to and press enter on Save 
>> Link As. This brings up the usual Save dialog where you can rename 
>> the file.
>>
>>
>> Note: tabbing to the file is important. Just arrowing to it won't work.
>>
>>
>> I don't think it's productive to long for the things that worked 
>> better in the old days. They are no longer with us, so we only have 
>> what's here now to work with.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/29/2016 6:13 AM, ted chittenden wrote:
>>> I have two different messages: one each for Chris and Harry.
>>>
>>> Chris:
>>> I am in partial agreement with Harry about Firefox 49--in Windows, 
>>> instead of downloading the .mp3 file type to your .mp3 player of 
>>> choice, it automatically plays it inside the browser. Like harry, 
>>> I've been looking to change where the .MP3 file type plays without 
>>> success thus far. In addition, for those using the latest version of 
>>> Firefox with Windows, take note that some (but not all) of the 
>>> add-ons available for older versions of Firefox will not work with 
>>> Firefox 49 and the company explicitly states this when you go to 
>>> download the specific add-on.
>>>
>>> Harry:
>>> Unless you have memory or available drivespace issues (which you may 
>>> have--I don't know), you could keep Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox 
>>> on the same computer but use them for different things. For example, 
>>> I (mostly) prefer how Firefox handles the reading of emails in my 
>>> web-based email system and its handling of audio file types (other 
>>> than .MP3) so I use that browser for both of those purposes. On the 
>>> other hand, if I just wish to listen to .MP3 file types, then I'll 
>>> open Internet Explorer (I've already set up the file type to play in 
>>> Windows Media Player) and play it there.
>>>
>>> In the short term, this arrangement works fine. In the long term, 
>>> because Microsoft is replacing Internet Explorer with Microsoft Edge 
>>> and because Microsoft Edge is (reportedly) more persnickety about 
>>> what file types can be played than Internet Explorer is and assuming 
>>> that vendors of screenreading software will be unable to develop the 
>>> updates necessary to read Microsoft Edge, and, assuming further that 
>>> Narrator will be unable to support braille displays, one will have 
>>> to utilize a browser other than Internet Explorer with the Windows 
>>> product. And, as far as I know, Firefox and Google Chrome are your 
>>> only choices in this regard.
>>> -- 
>>> Ted Chittenden
>>>
>>> Every story has at least two sides if not more.
>>> ---- Christopher Chaltain <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Well, I don't have trouble downloading files with Firefox, and I'm 
>>> using
>>> the latest Firefox on Linux. I'd suggest trying the same thing I sent
>>> you off line, namely going into Preferences and then Applications. Down
>>> arrow to the file type you're having trouble with, like MP3, and then
>>> change to always ask or save file. For MP3, I have it set to always 
>>> ask.
>>>
>>> On 28/09/16 23:07, Harry Brown wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> Using jaws 17, windows 10, and firefox 49.1.
>>>> I finally got how to add a bookmark and delete a bookmark in firefox,
>>>> and as usual, wrote that down, and put it into my computer notebook 
>>>> folder.
>>>> Here's the problem, with firefox 21 and later, they use a media 
>>>> codec on
>>>> your computer, and when you click on a download link for an mp3 file,
>>>> the file plays, and it dowsn't download.
>>>> I have been all over the web and I got onto firefox help web pages.
>>>> one page said, to type about:config in the address bar, and then look
>>>> for something that says windows media windows audio, and I did that,
>>>> couldn't find it at all!
>>>> Then, I read a firefox support page that said to go to options, 
>>>> which I
>>>> did, and found the list box, and down arrowed to applications. 
>>>> Then, the
>>>> support page said to look for the file type, which in this case is 
>>>> .mp3,
>>>> and then, find the application, and there is no file type list.
>>>> What a mess! They did not have this problem till they got the 
>>>> brilliant
>>>> idea to make firefox 21 and later, play the file, and not download it.
>>>> So, you might as well stick with internet explorer for everything,
>>>> except if you're going to listen to an audio stream that uses winamp.
>>>> This goes to show all of us that sometimes newer versions of programs
>>>> are not better, and of course, we all know that, because I've heard 
>>>> many
>>>> computer users tell me, exactly that.
>>>> At least I can download with internet explorer 11, with no problems.
>>>> Harry
>>>>
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