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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

What distribution are you running? Making sure Firefox isn't updated 
will depend on what you're using to update your packages. For example, 
some package managers will let you pin a certain version of a package. I 
now just run update-manager and uncheck Firefox 25 and thunderbird 25 
updates.

On 11/05/2013 12:53 PM, Rusty Perez wrote:
> 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
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