Re: [orca-list] stay away from chromium latest snapshots !

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

OK, this is interesting.

I didn't rebuild the other day as I customarily do everyweekend because
I believe Joanie is temporarily off line. So, I didn't pull Orca master,
either.

My current chromium is 
Version         : 85.0.4172.0.r778088-1
                                                                        Build Date : Sat 13 Jun 2020 05:08:51 
AM EDT

I updated virtually everything else last Saturday, however; and I'm  and
am now having all kinds of trouble with Firefox, e.g. Ctrl+Home isn't
taking me to the top of the page on Amazon any longer:

Version : 77.0.1-1
Build Date : Wed 03 Jun 2020 04:18:02 AM EDT
Install Date : Sat 06 Jun 2020 01:03:35 AM EDT

Go figure.

                                                                        Janina

Orca screen reader developers writes:
> Hi,
> it appears that since a couple of snapshots, chromium messed up so badly in the 
> accessibility stack that typing in the search bar result in an instant segfault. 
> Issue only happens when accessibility flags are passed, which confirm they are 
> somehow related to the problem. The very latest orca from git master, or the 
> stable release, it does not seem to matter at any point. Also the bookmark menu 
> with hidden bookmarks is now entirely unusable with orca.
> I send this email to warn people, stay away from the very latest snapshots.
>
> Hope this avoids some trouble for others
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html

-- 

Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa