Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird 24 non-responsiveness (was Re: Orca uses much cpu on my machine)

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Peter, some questions.
Are you using arch linux?
The accounts are pop or imap?
How many messages in your inbox folder?
Thanks.

On 10/09/2013 04:36 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> I have also been able to build and install the latest master branch of
> orca. It partially fixed garbled texts of live region anouncements but
> unfortunatelly the lag is there.
> I am going to try to write exactly how I can reproduce the issue maybe
> it will help a bit.
>
> I have multiple accounts setup let's call them account 1 and account 2.
> Account 1 is at the top of the folder treeview and account 2 is below
> account 1. So while they both are collapsed arrowing up from account 2 I
> can move directly to account 1.
> When I start thunderbird inbox for the account 2 is selected inside the
> folder treeview and focus is placed inside the message list. Message
> preview is not displayed and message filter is displayed. Other settings
> in the view menu are not changed.
> Here are the steps to make it hang and freeze:
> - press shift+tab to go to the message filter edit field,
> - press shift+tab once more to go to the folders treeview,
> - press left arrow multiple times until you realize account 2 is collapsed,
> - press up arrow to move to account 1 and notice it's collabsed too,
> - press right arrow key to expand account 1,
> - press down arrow to go to the inbox for account 1.
> Now if you press any key e.g. the tab key to go to the message filter
> edit field you will hear nothing but key echo as the keypresses are
> anounced. If you are lucky you can alt+tab to another app and work there
> however even returning back into thunderbird after a while does not
> return access to thunderbird back. If you are back in thunderbird, you
> can press super+alt+s to switch off and then switch back on the screen
> reader. After getting screen reader on utterance spoken, you will have
> to wait a little while and then curent control focused in thunderbird
> gets announced automagically and you will be able to continue as normal
> until you change account in thunderbird or move to another folder in the
> folders treeview which is not a child of the folder you are currently in.
>
> I know this is somewhat complicated but I can always reproduce the issue
> by following these steps.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On 08.10.2013 16:24, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > Sent in PVT.
> > let me know if I sent in the correct way.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On 10/08/2013 10:56 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > Hey José.
> > >
> > > On 10/08/2013 09:39 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > > > That did not solve the problem.
> > > > The lag persists.
> > >
> > > I'm not surprised. Thanks for trying/verifying, though!
> > >
> > > Could you please send me a debug.out? I just tried on a six-year-oldish
> > > laptop with an i3 and some mail folders with quite a few messages (e.g.
> > > Sent items has more than 11,000). I tried slow arrowing, crazy-fast
> > > arrowing, etc. I'm not seeing anything which would amount to significant
> > > lag. This is with Thunderbird 24 and F20 (i.e. GNOME 3.10).
> > >
> > > Also, since you said the problem is not present in Thunderbird 17,
> > > getting a comparative debug.out might be handy, if that is not too much
> > > trouble.
> > >
> > > Thanks again for your help hunting this bug!
> > > --joanie
> > >
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{}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza