hi all I've just experimented for teh first time with pressing orca+f12 to let gecko control teh carrot. It doesn't fix *all* the bugs, but it seems to if not fix, then make much less frequent, the issue of orca looping, skipping bits of the text, etc. It still gets stuck on words, but when gecko controlls teh carrot it seems to only get stuck once, instead of getting stuck forever. On bard, for example, orca will frequently loop back to the top of the page after reading the download link for a book. But with carrot turned over to gecko, it still speaks the top line of the page, but doesn't actually loop, it continues reading. Any thoughts? Can anyone else confirm on a public site? Maybe that site kyle posted here a week or so ago? I just tried this on bookshare, where orca will skip the entire synopsis of teh book and jump directly to the next book wen arrowing. Letting gecko control teh carrot fixes this. Thank god, that was annoying. Looks like it wasn't firefox's fault at all, but orca's trying to figure out if it should control teh carrot or not. Is there a reason orca has to control the carrot at all in firefox? can't it let gecko do it? I'm sure there is, or was, some reason or it wouldn't have been put in, but letting gecko control it fixes the most annoying bugs. Firefox is usable again. Thanks Kendell clark
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