Re: [orca-list] continuing trouble with orca and firefox 25

[Rusty Perez <rustys lists gmail com>]

Thanks so much Joani for your work and for your responses.
Continuing idiot questions: :-) How can I downgrade to ff24?
And, I'll assume that there's a setting in options which will tell ff
not to upgrade right?
Thanks soooo much.
Rusty

On 11/5/13, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> Hey Rusty.
>
> On 11/05/2013 01:22 PM, Rusty Perez wrote:
>
> > First idiot question, how can I find out which version of orca I'm
> > running?
>
> Assuming you are running a recentish version, pressing Orca modifier + H
> will announce the version (and then continue to put you in "Learn Mode",
> which you can exit by pressing Escape). Since the dawn of time, typing
> 'orca -v' in a terminal will also tell you.
>
> > Also, my issues with firefox aren't just that it seems to hang, or
> > silence orca, but also that my arrow navigation keys don't seem to
> > work as before on a web page.
>
> Yeah, that falls under the umbrella of what I said in my earlier
> message: Either Mozilla broke stuff or they fixed stuff. <smiles> Orca
> has an unfortunately large amount of hacks in its Firefox support to
> deal with bugs in Gecko's accessibility implementation. As Mozilla fixes
> those bugs, it can break Orca's hacks. Alternatively, they might have
> broken something new. Either way, I'm going to have to do much digging
> and will do so.
>
> > Before, I could use up and down arrow keys to navigate the body or
> > text of an email message on the mobile gmail web site. Now, it will
> > not navigate blocks of text line by line in this manner, it seems to
> > jump around or something.
>
> That means the Gecko accessible text implementation changed.
>
> What I would recommend for now, is stick with Firefox 24 and do not let
> it autoupgrade. Once I've sorted out what the issues are, I'll let
> everyone know.
>
> Sorry and thanks!
> --joanie