I have found that it helps a lot, when using browsers other than
Internet Explorer, to learn the keyboard commands for different
actions, such as going back, going forward, going to the home page,
finding one's bookmarks etc. If you know the keyboard commands, all
you have to do is say "press" and the keyboard combination in
question. For example, going back a page is on the keyboard, the "backspace,"
key ("press backspace" with Dragon," going forward a page is "shift
backspace" ("press shift backspace" using Dragon). Going to the home page
is "Alt home," or "Control Spacebar." All of the main "toolbar" items, file,
edit, view, tools, etc. can be brought up with an "Alt" and the first letter
of the item. For example, for file, one would type, "alt F" or say in Dragon, "press Alt. F."

Also, one cannot use the command, such as with Internet
Explorer, "start scrolling," but if you put your mouse cursor on the
bar on the right hand side of a web page, and say "mouse drag down"
or "mouse drag up," it's like scrolling, because the mouse cursor
drags the bar down. Also, you can use the command "faster," or
"slower," if the speed of the dragging is not suitable to you. The
commands,"page down," and "page up," seem to work. Also, one can say
at a web page "move down 20," or whatever number of lines one wants
to, and the mouse will start scrolling down that number of lines. The
same thing works for scrolling up. Then you just say, "move up 20)"
(or whatever number of lines you want to move up). The above seems to
work with both Firefox and Opera. The "click link" command in
InternetExplorer is wonderful, because all of the clickable links on a
page within the monitor view have a number assigned to them, and all
you have to do is say the number to open the link. My workaround with
other browsers is to use the "mouse grid" command. With it, I can
move the cursor of the mouse very well across a web page.

I seem to have a harder time making do with my Thunderbird mail
program, because there the Dragon program seems much more erratic.
Sometimes when I say "select text" it does that. Other times it
doesn't. What I generally do is the commmand, "Show Dictation Box," and then
use that, and paste what I type there into Thunderbird. For bigger messages,
I use my DragonPad, write my message there, and then copy it over into my
Thunderbird e:mail Compose panel.

If people find this the above helpful, maybe there's a way to post this onto
the RSS feeds for Speech Computing. I myself am not familiar enough with this
site to know if it can be done.