Re: [orca-list] Pre-testing of Orca with Chromium/Chrome

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Thanks Janina!

Your message made my day -- and quite possibly my year. :)

--joanie

On 11/23/19 1:50 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Joanie:
>
> I've played with it for 5 minutes and I'm blown away. I just booked my
> paratransit ride for tomorrow, logged into my Google Calendar, that's
> about it so far.
>
> It's so fast!
>
> I'd swear it's faster than any browser on any OS, and I've got a few OS
> hanging around here, all pretty current stuff.
>
> If truth be told, My Linux machine is my oldest computer, 2012 vintage.
> But Chromium plus Orca is faster than anything on Mac or Windows, and
> those are newer machines.
>
> Just my two cents (American). Thank you for this awesome gift.
>
> Janina
>
> Joanmarie Diggs writes:
> > Hey all.
> >
> > There are still some significant issues that need to be fixed in
> > Chromium/Chrome. But enough people have been asking me about testing, so I
> > wrote up a wiki page for people who are going to test even though I keep
> > saying we're not quite ready. <grins>
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/Chromium
> >
> > As you'll see there, you need the very latest Orca from master and a
> > super-recent version of Chrome/Chromium. You'll need some command line
> > switches too. I've also summarized some key known issues at the bottom of
> > that page.
> >
> > Lastly, as you'll see on that page, you are *strongly* encouraged to
> > double-check that the Chrome/Chromium issue you are about to report to me is
> > not an issue in Firefox. If it's an issue in both, I should address it, but
> > we want to get Chrome/Chromium ready for all Orca users to try, and that
> > means focusing the time I have on Chrome/Chromium.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --joanie
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