Re: [orca-list] Firefox caret gets caught on links?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I should have said in my previous message, its around the heading at 
level 1 just after the menu for networking product categories and the 
listing of the actual products where orca gets stuck.

Michael Whapples
On 30/06/10 23:42, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> Yes I see it on some websites. The following link (sorry for it being 
> a shop) 
> http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Networking/cat/Wireless-Networking/subcat/Routers---ADSL 
> seems to d it reliably.
>
> Do others see it on that page? Is it possible from that to find a 
> minimal example which causes this bug?
>
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > Yes, I have been seeing this seemingly more frequently in recent
> > time.  I'm mostly using version 3.5.9 of Firefox and latest git-pulls
> > of Orca.  Sometimes I can get out of that point by hitting the
> > downarrow several times in rapid succession to move past it;
> > otherwise, I have to hit tab or some other structural navigation
> > command to move on.  Wonder if it has anything to do with dead
> > accessibles.  I still can't quite comprehend what dead accessibles are
> > but understand them to be the root cause of many Firefox related bugs
> > with Orca.
> >
> > Dunno if FF 3.6.5+ would be any better in this regard but frankly I
> > find 3.6 versions of Firefox to be to unstable for my tasts - to many
> > navigation bugs and that bookmarks dialog is completely broken!
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:29:11PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Since a few months now, I keep observing a problem in Firefox which
> > > initially looked like a crash to me.  Now I seem to have isolated at
> > > least a description of the behaviour.  When I use the firefox caret to
> > > navigate a page it can happen that once I am on a link I can no longer
> > > move away from that position, neither down nor up nor sideways.
> > >
> > > Did anyone else observe this already?  It is not 100% reproducible, but
> > > seems to happen pretty often.
> > >
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