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The capabilities the plug-in provides add to what functionality Dragon already has for the particular browser.
Remember that Dragon’s existing capabilities differ significantly among browsers, both in terms of commands
and in terms of text control.
One is relevant to the Send button. In Firefox, you can activate buttons including the send button:
independently of the plug-in, you can say “click Send”.
Here are other differences among browsers:
 Dragon has commands specific to Internet Explorer, including commands for clicking text boxes, check
boxes, list boxes, and radio buttons.
 In Firefox and Chrome, there is no Full Text Control outside of pages specifically supported by the plug-
in.
 To voice-click a hyperlink in Firefox, you may need to say the link’s full name preceded by “click”.
 In Chrome, you cannot activate hyperlinks by name. Also, Dragon has no commands such as “go to
Address bar”, “open new tab”, “go home”, “refresh page”, etc. Of course you can take advantage of
global commands: mouse commands (such as “MouseGrid 3 9”, “mouse click”, and “move mouse upper
left”) and key-pressing commands (such as “press Alt d”, “press Enter”, “press control t”, “press tab”,
“press F5”, “press Escape” and “page down”).
Note: In addition to keyboard shortcuts of the Web browser itself, you may wish to take advantage of
keyboard shortcuts of Gmail or Hotmail/Outlook.com (as in “press control enter” for sending). Lists are
available on the Web, including on the websites of Google and Microsoft.
Key points about Dragon and e-mail
 In supported e-mail programs, the higher editions of Dragon provide many voice commands to perform
tasks related to creating and managing e-mails, such as open message, delete memo, go to Subject…
 In e-mail commands, you can use the words message, e-mail, memo, or mail interchangeably.
 If you have Microsoft Outlook and your edition of Dragon supports them, you can use direct commands
(the “Dragon Voice Shortcuts”) like book meeting with <contact(s)>, create message to <contact(s)>,
create email about <subject>, and create task about <subject>, at any time, no matter what
application has the focus (there is no need to first switch to Outlook). These shortcut command help
you quickly act on thoughts, with minimal interruption to your overall flow of activity.
 You can see more e-mail commands in the Command Browser and the Dragon Sidebar; in addition, the
Help contains many details about using Dragon with e-mail. Remember that Dragon contains a
command that lets you name keywords to search for in the Help: for instance, you could say “search
Dragon help for Outlook calendar.”
 Thanks to its plug-in for Internet Explorer (version 9 and 10, 32-bit only), Firefox, and Chrome, Dragon
12 has added functionality in Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook.com. This functionality comes in addition to
Dragon’s existing capabilities for the particular browser. A small graphic marks items that can be
activated with the principle “click <name>” e.g. “click inbox” and “click drafts”.
 For the Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook.com feature to be active, you may need to close and re-open your
browser once after installing Dragon 12. (Note: If you install Internet Explorer after Dragon 12, you may
need to re-launch Dragon’s installation.)
 When in your Gmail or Hotmail/Outlook.com account, you can say “show site commands” to see a list
of commands available thanks to the plug-in.