Re: [orca-list] More on Orca and Firefox: possible freezing

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Peter.

I can reproduce the iCloud problem and will look into that. I cannot
reproduce the matrix.org problem. Do you still experience that with master?

--joanie

On 04/08/2015 05:51 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> I am sorry for this message coming at such a late moment. However I have
> finally found sites where I can for sure reproduce orca not responding
> within a little while eventually increasing cpu load to the maximum.
> I am running orca master 466afa052512bf4dccd20bf25faa5c50f7ba1a7a with
> Firefox 27 on Arch linux.
> The problem is that on some sites where some heavy javascript DOM
> manipulation takes place orca tends to freeze a lot and the only way on
> how to get its responsiveness back is by restarting either orca or firefox.
> Without logging in it can for example be seen at http://www.matrix.org/
> . Just loading this page and trying to move over the links by pressing
> the tab key is enough for noticing the freeze. After up to 30 seconds
> the freeze goes away by it-self and you can continue browsing like
> normal. I know some parts of the site might be resource intensive
> however I expect it not to be causing such a huge orca freezes.
> Even more obvious example of what I mean is when trying to logging into
> icloud and trying to manipulate the contacts. Of course icloud.com does
> not have a verry accessible web service but for demoing this orca issue
> it's accessible enough.
> 0) Make sure you have orca and firefox running
> 1) Go to https://www.icloud.com/ and login with your Apple ID
> 2) once the page loads, use tab or shift+tab keys to locate the contacts
> button and activate it. Please note sometimes the contact button can't
> be activated by pressing the enter key so you have to emulate the mouse
> movement and click.
> 3) Once the contacts part of the icloud app is loaded focus is placed
> into search contacts edit field. Now switch into focus mode, find the
> text All contacts and notice two images on the line following after All
> contacts text.
> 4) Click the first of these two images. Icloud app will bring up a
> context menu which is not accessible as it should be. However by further
> exploring the page with orca switched into browse mode you will be able
> to find items such as Preferences, Select All, Delete, Print etc...
> 5) Still with orca switched to browse mode locate the Select all link,
> and emulate mouse move and click that.
> 6) You will notice orca freezing in to an extend you can no longer
> navigate the page.
>
> I understand this use case is verry rare but this is the first where I
> am able to reproduce it consistently so I can document the steps. As
> find more examples of this I might post them so it's easier to handle.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
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