Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird is freezing orca

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Peter.

Your save attachment issue is hopefully now fixed in master. Please let
me know.

--joanie

On 09/10/2015 06:15 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> 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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