Re: [orca-list] No typing control in Ff's adress bar

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

D'Oh - I knew this all rang a bell:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568811

This might be a new regression in Firefox.  We need to dig to the bottom 
of it and file a bug with Mozilla at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org if one 
hasn't already been filed.

Will

Willie Walker wrote:
> I checked this out with Orca from trunk on OpenSolaris 2008.11 b108 with 
> Firefox 3.1 Beta 2.  I'm not seeing any caret movement events being 
> issued by Firefox in either the URL location area or the search area. 
> This seems like YAGBAOR (yet another Gecko bug and/or regression).
>
> I'll need to test with FF 3.1 beta 3 to see if we need to log a bug with 
> the Mozilla folks.
>
> Will
>
> James & Nash wrote:
> > Hi Will,
> >
> > Yes, I can confirm that Orca sometimes becoems silent in the address 
> > bar of Firefox which makes it impossible ot correct. However it seems 
> > to work okay the first time I launch Firefox.
> >
> > i am running Ubuntu 8.10 on Toshiba Tecra A9 series with Orca 2.25.92 
> > on GNOME 2.24
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > James
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" 
> > <William Walker Sun COM>
> > To: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
> > Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:17 PM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] No typing control in Ff's adress bar
> >
> >
> > > Hi Hermann:
> > >
> > > Late in the GNOME 2.24 cycle, there were some changes made to the way 
> > > GTK+ loads the accessibility infrastructure and this impacted Firefox 
> > > as well. You might be running into this.  Based upon your previous 
> > > e-mails, though, I believe you are running a distribution few of us 
> > > use, and you've also customized it to a great degree.
> > >
> > > I'd be interested if others who are using an "out of the box" 
> > > distribution such as Ubuntu or OpenSolaris can also reproduce this 
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Hermann wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I feel that certain issues come up again and again:
> > > > When I try to enter an adress in FF's adress bar, Orca is silent and 
> > > > the
> > > > braille display shows nothing.
> > > > You are not able to control/correct your typing.
> > > > I remember that we had this earlier, but I thought it has been fixed.
> > > > I use the latest Minefield, but it also happens with Shiretoko.
> > > > In Iceweasel it shows my typing, but very very slow.
> > > > So what has happened?
> > > > Hermann
> > > >
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