This is an interesting thread. I've been using IE 9 for a little over a 
year, but I didn't start having problems with it until a few months ago, 
around the time I updated to Jaws 13. Because the problems aren't 
consistent, I'm not sure whether they're caused by Jaws, IE, or 
something else, like Flash or Java. The point is that it's not unusual 
for me to find that I can't open a combo box, fill out an edit field, or 
activate an on-screen button. I now mostly use Firefox, but I notice the 
same types of problems, only much less often.

Sometimes I need to use both browsers for the same website, one for some 
tasks and the other for others. for example, when I visit the Audible 
website with IE9, I can't search My Library, click Next in the library 
page, or click Add to Cart on the home page. In Firefox, all of these 
things work perfectly. The problem with Firefox is that I often get 
Flash crashes when I load the home page, not when I click on an Audible 
link from, say, an email message.

A similar situation happens with Blackboard. If I want to upload a file 
for my students, I need to use IE9 because, if I use Firefox, nothing 
happens when I click some of the links. but for most other things, I use 
Firefox because I tend to lose focus when I use IE9.


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