Re: [orca-list] a pretty severe bug in firefox

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey all.

This is either a broken Gecko table hierarchy and/or a pyatspi bug.
Regardless, I have worked around it in Orca. Fix committed to both
master and the gnome-3-14 branch.

Thanks for the report!
--joanie

On 11/05/2014 03:17 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all I've just recently noticed a pretty severe bug in firefox.
> It doesn't lock up orca, but it does make it unable to use it.
> First of all, I'm on firefox 33.0.2. Try going to about:config in
> the address bar. Click on the I'll be careful, I promise! button.
> What should happen is orca should speak loading, please wait,
> followed by entry for the search field. Only orca says nothing, and
> in fact will not speak anything, in firefox or outside it, until
> firefox is closed with alt+f4. If this happens, orca comes back
> immediately. I have no idea if this is an orca bug or firefox, but
> I suspect firefox. I've just recently installed a firefox addon to
> integrate it with gnome keyring and was trying to see how to set i
> t up when I came across this. Can anyone else confirm this? Thanks 
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