[orca-list] Firefox 3.6 status update

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey all.

I wanted to update you on where things are (as best as I can tell)
regarding Firefox 3.6.

1. Because it seems distros will be shipping Firefox 3.6 with GNOME
2.30, we've decided to change the default setting of "Grab focus on
objects when navigating" from True to False to make life easier for Orca
users who are not on this list keeping up with such issues.

This change has just been committed to master. Note that I've only done
this for the Gecko/Firefox script. At the moment, the default setting
for Yelp and Thunderbird are still True. If that changes, I'll let you
know.

Reminder: If you are using Firefox 3.5 or Firefox 3.6 from before 30th
Sept, you *do* want to grab focus (i.e. this setting should be checked).
If you are using Firefox 3.6 from 30th Sept or later, you do *not* want
to grab focus (i.e. this setting should be unchecked).

2. The bookmarks breakage is a Mozilla regression that was introduced in
the 14th July build of Firefox 3.6. The bug occurs even without Orca
running. Other widgets keep stealing focus, and there's nothing we can
do about that on our end, unfortunately. For those interested, here's
the bug I've filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546053

3. The issue of tabbing not moving you to where you think it should, and
Alt+Tabbing out of Firefox and back into it moving you to someplace
other than where you were is a Mozilla regression that was introduced in
the 11th June build of Firefox 3.6. I cannot think of any way to hack
around this problem in the meantime. Therefore I've filed this bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546068

4. The issues reported about Orca no longer reporting form fields in
Firefox 3.6 seem to have been the result of Gecko changing the table
hierarchy a bit in a way that we were not counting on in Orca. I have
committed the fix we needed to make to master. If there are other
label-guessing issues that have been introduced in Firefox 3.6 (i.e.
they are not a problem in 3.5), those are news to me. Please file a bug
(after searching to see if someone else has already reported it).

I believe that just means I have Jacob's issue of Orca presenting info
from a page other than the one you're in. If I'm wrong about that being
the last of the 3.6 issues, please remind me of what I've forgotten
and/or file a bug if it happens to be a new issue.

Thanks guys! Take care.
--joanie