Re: [orca-list] Getting about:performance working

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

I'll take a look, but about:performance would be a lot more accessible 
if it provided its own keyboard navigation similar to other lists.

--joanie

On 5/16/19 3:55 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> Firefox performance went batty on me this morning, so I went searching 
> for a Chrome task manager equivalent and found about:performance. This 
> partially worked, though I couldn't seem to navigate to all my tabs, and 
> repeatedly had to tab out of and back into the window.
>
>
> I'm wondering if about:performance is routinely replacing its table and 
> Orca is losing its position? If that's the case, could Orca somehow grab 
> the row with which it is associated, then return to that particular row 
> or something near enough? For instance:
>
>
>   * I launch about:performance and start navigating to the table. I 
> arrive at row 4.
>
>   * Firefox refreshes the table, so suddenly Orca loses its original 
> position.
>
>   * Orca returns to row 4 and, if I'm lucky, the table column where I 
> left. So even if the table itself refreshes, Orca maintains a consistent 
> position in the table.
>
>
> I don't know if this is what's happening, but if I'm returned to the 
> original position, at least I'll get a relative snapshot of what items 
> are in the table, even if the items move around a bit. Usually, in the 
> case of performance monitoring, that's good enough to give me a sense of 
> what occupies a given slot and is stealing resources.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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