Re: [orca-list] strange behavior with orca and ff 28

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I will see what I can do to add interim hacks.
--joanie

On 04/01/2014 07:07 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> I am sorry to continue in this discussion.
> Do I understand correctly that the outcome is that with Firefox 28,
> Thunderbird 24.4 and orca 3.12 and orca master for a while we will have
> to live with this issue?
> Currently it looks as everyone has done his job to the best of his / her
> abilities including you and mozilla folks. Are we now waiting for
> Firefox 29 and Thunderbird 24.5 in order to see the results of that work
> or is there a chance something can be done about this?
> Worth noting is the fact that with orca 3.10 this does not occur and
> text selection appears to be working better with Firefox 28 and
> Thunderbird 24.4. In particular I am testing in Thunderbird new message
> window. Withorca 3.10 I can arrow over the text no mather whether the
> text has previously been selected or not. With orca master if I focuss
> an empty edit field and write into it I can read the text I am writing
> but if I focuss an edit field where the text is already typed in and the
> whole text is selected I can't get the reporting to work no mather which
> combinations of key presses I am trying.
>
> Thanks and greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 01.04.2014 03:55, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Update:
> >
> > On 03/31/2014 08:49 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > Ah, looks like my fault. I am using nightly. I'll grab an earlier
> > > version of Firefox. Sorry about that!
> > And the earlier versions of Firefox (including FF 28) have this Mozilla
> > bug in it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956032. The
> > Mozilla guys fixed that bug. And the changes I made earlier today to
> > Orca should work with that fix.
> >
> > HTH and sorry for the noise!
> > --joanie
> >
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