Re: [orca-list] Moving forward on Firefox

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:36:20PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi Steve
> This does suggest to me that the bug is actually in one of the packages
> that go along with Firefox, such as Xulrunner or Gecko. Since Ubuntu
> Lucid is also seeing this with their Firefox 3.6 packages this makes me
> suspect it even more. The Mozilla binaries do not use external gecko or
> xul packages but use their own latest versions provided with them. For
> the bookmarks bug my first suspect would be Xulrunner since that's what
> renders and controls the dialogs.
> One note though: I'd suggest installing the Mozilla binaries under your
> home directory instead of /usr/local/lib. This way they will
> automatically update properly without you having to manually run them as
> root and check.

Well my hopes are dashed! I installed the whole binary tree from
Mozilla Firefox-3.6.3 and am running it right now over in gnome.  Alas
the caret still jumps to the "More" button.  It seems like it might be
less often than before, but still way too often for me.  I uninstalled
the ArchLinux package for Firefox and also removed the old 3.5.7
version from /usr/local/lib so I should have any potential conflicts
completely out of the way.  So the binary download did not fix it for
me <sigh>.  Guess I'm gonna have to keep my 3.5.9 version around if I
expect to manage my bookmarks.

Based on the original bug filed against Mozilla on this, Joanie was
able to reproduce this bug some after a version last July some time.
So this thing is lerking about for some of us.  It seems rather odd
that it works for you, Jacob, but for me on two different platforms
and for Bill Cox, I believe, it doesn;t; there's gotta be something going on here.
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