Re: [orca-list] possibly OT: can't write in Google or other search boxes

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Full debug.out captured from very latest master please. Thanks!
--joanie

On 11/23/2015 03:15 PM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> For the past week, I've been unable to do Google searches or searches on
> other sites.  I was unable to log into a site, and the problems looks to
> be the same.
>
> When I type an s in the Google search area, I get the message "no more
> separators."  If I type an x, I get "no more checkboxes."  This sort of
> thing occurs whether I'm just in focus mode or make focus mode sticky.
> Since there are a good number of single letters for getting to things on
> Web pages, there are a lot of words I can't use for searching.
>
>     
> Right now, I'm using Orca version 3.19.2pre, but the problem occurrs
> with 3.18.2 as well.  I've had search and login problems since about
> last spring, but this is the worst version.  It does not occur using a
> live DVD of Debian 8 or of Fedora 22 or 23.  I tried downgrading
> Firefox, but that just failed.  I'm using 64-bit Arch Linux, last
> updated today, but obviously this is not a general Arch problem or I'd
> have seen massive complaining.
>
> In case you wonder what happened a week ago, that was when my GUI came
> back alive after a two-week hibernation that fixed itself by simple full
> system updating.  That hibernation was itself caused by the update that
> included upgrading gnome from 3.16 to 318, which I'd done hoping to
> eliminate the search and other quirks I already had.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Al
> on a Web page, there are a lot of words I can't search with.
>
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