Re: [orca-list] Orca and Mozilla apps

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Thunderbird shouldn't be doing this. 
Please tell us what your CPU is, how much memory you have, amd what t-bird version you are running.
You have to configure the sounds, I wrote about this on the vinux list last year, but basically it takes you 
setting a 
path to a wav file, one you choose. There are some limits as to bitrate and the like, but it'll  work
Make sure the volume is turned up to something reasonable on the appropriate tabe in the pulse audio control. 
I think You 
are using vinux4, so this will be in the sound setttings. Sorry, can't remember exact name of the tab, but 
it's obvious 
when read next to the rest.
Do you know how to use top? 
I have a customized toprc file that will give you easy to understand output, but just typing top starts the 
program. It 
tells you things ike how much memory, cpu and so forth is being used by a given program, but the default 
setup is not that 
good for speech -users
I'll attach a better configuration. Put it in your home directory making sure it's named .toprc there is a 
period there in 
case your punctuaion is turned down. 
Send me a copy of top output while thunderbird is running.

I'm running out the door again, and will be off line all day tomorrow, but will try and help some more over 
the weekend if 
you still have this problem.
Some slowness  could be a case of you having a lot in your gmail folders, allmail especially, and it being 
synced. If you 
have a slower computer this can take up a noticeable amount of processor and memory. Once synced, and you 
should turn off 
syncing off all mail at least if it is synced by default, things should settle down.
--
B.H.





On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:02:43PM -0700, Victor Lawrence wrote:
> I have had problems with Thunderbird too.  It slows my entire system
> down to a crawl.  Plus, Thunderbird does not play the system sounds
> for incoming emails.  I'd like to use it instead of Gmail's web
> interface.  But i'll stick with the web interface if Thunderbird keeps
> slowing down my system.
>
> VictorOn 7/19/14, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:
> > Try thunderbird nightly builds, or by now good releases should be in alpha
> > if not beta channel. I think the list focus
> > issue was resolved starting with TB32.
> > I think the left arrow not going where it should problem may continue, but
> > yes, these are well known problems I think.
> > These are mozilla problems as far as I know.
> > --
> > B.H.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 02:48:53AM +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I could access to my Mozilla apps via Orca on MATE and I find same
> > > prob;ems
> > > I experienced on Gnome3. So I use Orca 3.12, MATE and Firefox 30,
> > > Thunderbird 24. I have especially focus issues:
> > > 1. In the mail list, sometimes, when I press twice an arrow (down or up),
> > > instead of reading the next/previous message, Orca repeats the line the
> > > focus has just left. To have a normal scrolling again, I need to come
> > > back
> > > in the folders list, press down and up.
> > > 2. Reading message: the focus has not always a proper movement. Sometimes
> > > it
> > > cannot go to left, sometimes he seems lost. Reading a message, while I
> > > change window (alt-tab), the cursor goes to the top of the message
> > > instead
> > > of staying where I left the window.
> > > 3. Idem writing a message: hard to know where's the focus.
> > >
> > > Are they known issues? Are they bugreports? Can you reproduce and are
> > > they
> > > Orca bugs or Mozilla bugs?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at
> > > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp