Re: [orca-list] Seamonkey hardly usable

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi
Did you use the official released version or a nightly build of
Seamonkey? You must use a nightly build for the browser to work
correctly with Orca, as the latest official release still uses the older
gecko engine such as that used in ff 2.0.

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 13:06 +0200, hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> in order to enhance my freedom, I decided to check out one more of the
> animals from the Mozilla zoo, called Seamonkey.
> Although it seems to use the same Gecko scripts than FF and TB, it
> turned out to be hardly usable.
> The browser does not show all webpages properly, above all my favorite
> newspaper:
> httP://www.fr-online.de
> The find dialogue of Orca does not start, instead I see SM's find
> dialogue.
> The configuration panel can only be handled with difficaulties, because
> scrolling through the tabs, Orca does not follow the focus.
> In the editor of the mail client Orca starts gibbering when I reread my
> mail text. I've to wait till the whale stops stuttering and gibbering,
> so I can continue to read/edit the mail.
> It doesn't matter whether I use the Orca or Gecko navigation.
> Did anybody thest Seamonkey and can confirm/reject my observations? Why
> do apps that use the same scripts behave that different?
> Note: Under Windows with NVDA this monky is a nice little pat; so why
> does it behave that nasty under Linux and Orca?
> Hermann
>
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