Re: [orca-list] several critical issues

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Strange thing is that most of the issues you mention appear to only 
occur on Intel-based machines. I was experiencing every one of your 
issues on an old Pentium IV Dell machine, and the additional problem 
that causes the entire Firefox window to be recognized as a tree, where 
I am unable to move. On my new AMD FX machine, I only occasionally 
experience the Firefox tree problem, and restarting Orca fixes it. The 
issues of sending Orca keybindings to the active application, slowness 
and inability to interrupt speech simply don't exist on this machine. I 
have tested this running both the stable release of Orca in Arch Linux 
and the git version. They both have serious problems on the P4 machine 
that make me want to toss it out the nearest airlock, but they both run 
quite smoothly with only the occasional hiccup on my new FX machine. Is 
there some sort of difference in the way Python, the at-spi or DBus 
interact with Intel vs. AMD processors/chipsets, maybe a strange 
difference in the instruction sets that could cause this? Can anyone 
else confirm my findings and/or propose a solution?
~Kyle