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

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Also when talking about slow response, try huge directories in
nautilus.  If I open a directory or folder with over 1,000 entries, it
takes a very long time to open.  A similar list in windows explorer
takes less than a second to do the same.

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:08:06PM +0200, Peter VÃgner wrote:
> Hello,
> I guess this is related to GTK specifically. All the huge lists and 
> treeviews I have noticed so far seem to freeze orca a lot.
> E.G. list of tracks in rhytm box or list of messages in thunderbird.
> Sorry for a bit off topic, now I am on windows with NVDA and all is 
> working great except of very little thing.
> When a dialog is opened it has a text like
> // end of dialog preamble
> I have looked to the source and I can see you have accidentally left out 
> a greater than character before so this is not treated like comment as 
> intended I guess. This is on line 13.
>
> Peter
>
> 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > All peoples would live in peace, if they could give up only two things:
> > > God
> > > and Country.
> > >
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