Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird: Seven weeks and only little progress!

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Hi Hermann,

> I'm going to test the latest Thunderbird; today there's a new version 
> after 7 weeks.
> Let me say that I'm more than disappointed:
>  

Please file bugs. Start off filing them against Orca, and when it's 
shown that they are clearly in
Thunderbird, we'll file bugs in the Mozilla Bugzilla database accordingly.

As a point to note, we (Will, Joanie, Mike, myself and several blind 
Orca users) met up
with a few Firefox/Mozilla staff yesterday to talk over issues. One 
thing is clear. They
are currently concentrating on Firefox. There hasn't even been a 
Thunderbird v2.0 release
yet, so v3.0 (the one where accessible problems are being fixed) is 
quite a ways off.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't let them know about their bugs. 
Early and often.

Thanks.

PS: Back to CSUN. If we go quiet, we'll catch up next week.

> No progress in stability: When I open a message to read it, TB crashes 
> after I've closed it.
> In the messages list I still cannot read the headline, I still se "Cell" 
> as only information.
> Sluggishnes in response: To scroll the folders tree can last a few 
> minutes, especially after start up I've to wait literally minutes before 
> reading anything.
> The same happens when I try to route the flat review; it last about 5 
> minutes till I get a response, and BTW, the routing patch implemented 
> for FF doesn't work here.
> When I compose a message, I Get the headlines spoken again and again 
> when I type in text, and the text isn't shown on my braille display; 
> only in the message body Orca acts correctly.
> Caret browsing only works reliable when the Orca control is turned on.
> Sumary: Still unusable.
> Regards
> Hermann
>
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