Re: [orca-list] Editable text becomes "about:blank" in Thunderbird 60.2.1

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

If you're saying you haven't upgraded orca since the thunderbird bug 
manifested itself, I'd say it makes perfect sense that you don't have 
the fix. You can't fix a bug before it occurs, not usually. Actually I 
am not entirely sure what happens if you install a package from 
backports and then do a normal dist-upgrade. Does it remember you 
installed from backports and check there for yet another upgrade? I 
doubt it. You probably have to type in the command to install from 
backports again.

I just tested the fix before I wrote my little howto. I had to in order 
to make sure I could write it up correctly. It works for me. The version 
of orca in debian stretch is 3.22 but, right now, in stretch-backports, 
it's 3.30. There's no reason it couldn't have been 3.28 or something a 
few weeks ago.

BTW, the version of orca in both ubuntu bionic and bionic-backports is 
3.28. It looks like the fix has not gotten into ubuntu bionic at all. 
The good news is that according to the ubuntu web site, ubuntu 
cosmic/18.10 is due out tomorrow. Most likely, you will be able to 
install the fix by doing a do-release-upgrade.

On 10/17/18 11:21 AM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> I did that update some weeks ago, but the Thunderbird problem kicked in 
> anyway, maybe two weeks ago.
>
> Al
>
> On 10/17/18 11:16 AM, John G Heim via orca-list wrote:
> > II'm not the OP but I use debian stretch and this problem comes up if 
> > you just use the standard gnome-orca and thunderbird packages. 
> > However, I also think that if you install gnome-orca from the 
> > stretch-backports repository, the problem goes away.
> >
> > In other words, if you are a debian stretch user, I think you can fix 
> > the problem by doing this:
> >
> > 1. Configure stretch-backports in your sources.list. Edit the file, 
> > /etc/apt/sources.list and add the line:
> >
> > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
> >
> > 2. Update the dpkg cache and install gnome-orca from strectch-backports:
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get -t stretch-backports install gnome-orca
> >
> > 3. Restart orca, press Alt+F2 and type "orca --replace".
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/17/18 9:39 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > > Hello Frans-Willem,
> > >
> > > Yes, I'm aware of this issue. You've probably migrated to Thunderbird 
> > > 60 without updating your Orca version, isn't it? You should have Orca 
> > > 3.30 to make it working with Thunderbird 60.
> > >
> > > What is your GNU/Linux distribution?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Alex.
> > >
> > > Le 17/10/2018 à 16:35, Frans-Willem Post via orca-list a écrit :
> > > > Hello list,
> > > >
> > > > As I write this message and several more, I can no longer use SayAll or
> > > > simple "press cursor up or down" to read the message body of a
> > > > mail-message. Orca only speaks "about colon blank" on every 
> > > > line/sentence.
> > > >
> > > > I presume this has happened upon an update of Thunderbird; Orca has not
> > > > recently been updated. Using 3.28.0 under Ubuntu 18.04.1 with GNOME.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else encountered this issue? How can it be solved?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Frans-Willem Post
> > > >
> > > >
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