Re: [orca-list] orca crashing on a strange web page

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Mike.

I just committed a change to Orca, both the master and 3.36 branches, 
which hopefully fixes this.

Please let me know. Thanks!
--joanie

On 4/7/20 21:59, Mike Gorse via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just came across an orca crash while using Firefox:
>
> - Open https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
> - Keep pressing down arrow / navigate down a few lines past the list of 
> countries
>
> Orca stops running. If I run it from the terminal, I see that it crashed 
> with a stack overflow. The following is printed many times, for v3.36.1:
>
>    File 
> "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/orca/scripts/web/script_utilities.py", 
> line 4624 in findNextCaretInOrder
>
> This bit of code recurses for every child of the parent:
>
>                  if 0 < index < parentChildCount:
>                      return self.findNextCaretInOrder(parent[index], -1)
>
> And, somehow, at least on my system, it has come across an image 
> accessible with 2,771 children, all images. Orca dies after reaching 
> 1000+ levels of recursion.
>
> Thanks. Hope everyone is staying safe.
>
> -Mike
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