Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird Badly Broken!

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi Steve
I had this problem with Firefox a few days ago, and thought it was an  
Orca issue for a little while at first. The problem actually turned  
out to be that the FF auto-update feature failed to install the new  
build properly, and resulted in the install being able to load but not  
to perform any other function. If you used the auto-update (under Help/ 
Check for updates) and it happened after that, try re-downloading the  
latest tarball and erasing and re-extracting the thunderbird folder.  
Settings won't be erased, as they're not stored with the app itself,  
but this will restore the application itself to a clean state after a  
failed automatic update.

hth




On Jun 27, 2009, at 05:52, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> Has anyone been experiencing any problems with recent versions of
> Thunderbird? I just tried to install a nightly build of Thunderbird
> yesterday and while using Orca from git pulled about a week ago
> (2.27.3).  When I start the program, I get the setup dialog to
> configure the mail settings but Orca stops talking at that point.  I
> can alt tab away to other windows and they all talk fine but The
> Thunderbird configuration dialog just won't speak and flat review keys
> don't work in it either.  In fact, I can't exit the program at all.
>
> I have a debug file if anyone is interested.  I have used Thunderbird
> in the past without these problems and I've been hearing some pretty
> positive news about T Bird lately but I sure wonder now what has
> happened to this fine program to make it completely unusable on my
> system.
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