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



These instructions were posted on the vinux list for Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit version after some collaborative trouble shooting on the #vinux IRC channel. You'll have to tweak them a bit for Ubuntu 13.04, and you didn't say if you were doing this on a 32-bit or a 64-bit install of Ubuntu.

1. Downgrading: the package is here:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/149991690/firefox_24.0%2Bbuild1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb

For 32 bits: on google, do: firefox launchpad precise 32 bits and follow the links.

Then, in a terminal, sudo dpkg -i ~/Téléchargements/firefox*.deb

2. To avoid future updates of firefox by the update manager, I put in /etc/apt/preferences these 3 ;ines:
Package: firefox*
Pin: version 24*
Pin-Priority: 1001

I hope this helps.

Note that Firefox 24 has been placed in the vinux repository, so downgrading to Firefox 24 in vinux will be much easier and anyone who hasn't upgraded to Firefox 24 won't be prompted to do so.

On 11/05/2013 01:10 PM, Rusty Perez wrote:
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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