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

[Rusty Perez <rustys lists gmail com>]

Hi guys, thanks!
I'm running ubuntu 13.4
I've heard that 13.10 has fixed some issues so maybe I'll upgrade, for
for now, ubuntu 13.4
Thanks!
Rusty


On 11/5/13, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com> wrote:
> 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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