Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird Badly Broken!

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Hi Jacob, well, I think we can disreguard my previous post. I looked 
around and found a different directory to download from and I now have 
version 3.0B instead of 3.0A. I replaced the contents into my 
/usr/local/lib and all is working fine now. In fact, I'm lovin' this! 
The gmail setup was excellent and I'm replying with the 'list-reply' 
function. This latest version is really cool! In fact, it works much 
better here with Orca than it does with Window-Eyes. The only other mail 
program that has a list-reply function that I know of is mutt so I was 
tickled pink to see that function added heere. I also love the 
notification if a thread is collapsed or not. The windows screen readers 
can't point that out.

So again, sorry folks for the false alarm; I now have thunderbird 
working and this may give mutt some serious competition.

On 06/27/2009 03:01 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> 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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