Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird is freezing orca

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
Isn't this most likelly because of the old well known Thunderbird issue 
described at: https://bugzil.la924915

In possibly related topic you appear to have fixed an issue recently 
where Thunderbird and Firefox were kind of frozen for a long long time 
when opening the prind dialog. I haven't noticed that my-self however I 
am seeing a bit of freezing at other place when performing other steps:
- Make sure you do have a folder including several hundred files e.g. 
more than 700 files inside you have permissions to write into.
- Find a message with attachment.
- Bring up the save dialog and notice the UI is verry responsive when 
the file chooser dialog appears showing your download folder where you 
only have a few files.
- With this being said please don't save your attachment into the 
download folder which is being shown. Instead browse into another folder 
where you do have a lot of files.
- While using the file chooser dialog to browse folders and files please 
take note the UI is very very responsive again.
- Finally save the attachment.
- When the attachment is saved please try to find another email with an 
attachment.
- Now please try to bring up the save as dialog again which should open 
the folder where you have saved your recently displayed attachment into.
- The file chooser dialog is shown however it takes significant while 
until it becomes responsive and you can use tab and shift+tab to 
navigate over the file chooser dialog controls with orca active.

Conclusion: When file chooser dialog pointing to a folder including a 
lot of files is shown it takes orca a really long time to process all 
the events until it becomes responsive.
When browsing other folders with a lot of files inside using the file 
chooser dialog the lag is no longer there.
So the lag only appears when the initial folder file chooser dialog is 
pointing to has a lot of files inside.
I don't know how many files have to be there to make the lag appear 
however on my PC I have just tried two folders a folder with about 730 
files and folder with more than 1450 files and I can feel the lag with 
both of them.

I was thinking that this is also because of this single huge Thunderbird 
performance issue. However as you have recently fixed a similar freezing 
issue else where I am trying to describe this situation perhaps this can 
also be tweaked. I am sending and receiving a lot of attachments via 
email using the same huge folder for all the files and it really slows 
me down through my job hours.


I know my habits can also be changed somehow in order to improve the 
workflow however if I can do this on other platforms e.g. on Android and 
on windows, I am hoping for a possible tweak on linux with orca one day.

Greetings

Peter

On 10.09.2015 at 17:27 Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey José.
>
> I'm in a couple of meetings today, but I'll try to take a look. Could
> you please send me your full debug.out privately?
>
> Also, please remind me: You were one of the people who reported problems
> when I had done the more aggressive event flood filtering, right? I ask
> because at this stage of the release cycle, I'm hesitant to make any
> major changes. (Code freeze is on Monday.)
>
> --joanie
>
> On 09/10/2015 10:30 AM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > In my imap account I have a folder in which are placed junk messages.
> > When I try to access this folder , orca is completely frozen and I am
> > forced to kill thunderbird and restart orca.
> >
> > In the debug file I found the following messages:
> > ----------> QUEUEING OBJECT:PROPERTY-CHANGE:ACCESSIBLE-NAME [DEAD]
> > (0,0,ADQUIRA JÁ A SUA AGENDA VENDAMAIS 2011) FROM [DEAD]
> > _toolkitForObject: [DEAD] no longer exists
> > ----------> QUEUEING OBJECT:PROPERTY-CHANGE:ACCESSIBLE-NAME [DEAD]
> > (0,0,ADQUIRA JÁ A SUA AGENDA VENDAMAIS 2011) FROM [DEAD]
> > _toolkitForObject: [DEADD] no longer exists
> >
> > The above messages appears 500451 times in the debug file.
> > I don't know how many messages are present in the folder, but I can try
> > to find the number.
> > Thanks.
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