Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I don't know whether this is actually to do with the plugin or Orca. I
have noticed other times that Orca can become unresponsive (eg. if an
email message gets long in evolution, word echo can become extremely
slow). The other thing that suggests it might be orca is that once the
list has finally loaded, press ctrl+alt+d to give the desktop focus,
orca should behave fairly normally navigating the desktop at this point,
now press alt+tab back to the list, observe the pause. What would the
list itself be doing at this point if it is the list plugin which causes
the slowness? I can imagine though orca could be doing quite a bit. May
be it isn't orca, I suppose it might be at-spi, or something in that
area.

Michael Whapples
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 18:48 +0100, Paul Hunt wrote:
> After playing with the extention a bit more there is definitley a problem 
> with pages that contain a large number of links.
>
> I went to a wikipedia article that contained nearly 1,000 links and the 
> links list took over 5 minutes to load.  In addition Orca was completely 
> unresponsive while it was loading (even if I alt + tabbed away from the 
> dialogue) there was no speach.  I actually thought Orca was crashing until I 
> read Michael Whapples comment.  In addition, with that number of links in 
> the list the dialogue is pso slow it's unusable even when it has loaded.
>
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:22 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension
>
>
>
> > Here is the updated version, with shortcut key alt+shift+l to invoke.
> >
> > http://www.mit.edu/~rjc/linkslist-1.1.xpi
> >
> > Please uninstall the old version, restart firefox, goto the addOns list 
> > and
> > be sure the previous version is uninstalled. Then install from the link
> > above.
> >
> >
> > Thanx.
> > -- Rich
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
> > To: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
> > Cc: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension
> >
> >
> > Well, that's what I get for only testing it on my development machine.
> >
> > This is my first time creating an installable (.xpi packaged) extension, 
> > so
> > I probably did something wrong packaging it up. I'll fix it and send 
> > another
> > eMail to the list.
> >
> > Sorry about that...
> > -- Rich
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
> > To: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
> > Cc: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] Links List - firefox extension
> >
> >
> > "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU> writes:
> >
> > > I've just created a bare-bones Firefox extension for displaying a list of
> > > links on the current page. Get the .xpi file here:
> > > http://www.mit.edu/~rjc/linkslist-1.0.xpi
> > >
> > > When it installs, you'll have an entry at the bottom of the tools menu
> > > called linkslist. Try it and let me know what you think.
> > What does it do? Looks as if it is nothing but a placeholder.
> > When I invoke it, I cannot see any links list. It starts a second
> > instance of FF, which I've to close by invoking "killall".
> > After doing so, I get the message that the last FF session has crashed
> > when restarting the program. I get placed in the extensions list, where
> > "links list" is shown, and I have to close this message.
> > When I don't kill the second FF instance, FF starts up without any
> > messages.
> > But besides from this strange behavior, It does not do its job in any
> > way.
> > So what is it all about?
> > I still want to emphasize my view that this all should belong to Orca,
> > and I got confirmed in my point of view.
> > Hermann
> >
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