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

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Thanks, Joanie! I just applied your change and don't get the crash 
anymore.

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

> 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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