Re: [orca-list] Debugging Webbrowsing

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Hi Elias,

I also use Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome with Orca. In Firefox I have no issues. 
Pressing E takes me to the search field and Orca+A switch to focus mode.

Milton

Op 09-09-2021 om 08:55 schreef Elias Oltmanns:
> Hi there,
>
> since I am mostly a terminal user, I am still not too familiar with the
> tricks of the trade when Orca and or Firefox do not behave themselves.
> Right now I am struggling with the following situation: On two different
> notebooks (one Intel based, the other AMD) I have Ubuntu 20.04
> installed with Gnome 3 and XOrg. From a terminal I start an X session
> with
> startx
> and launch Firefox. After entering
> https://www.amazon.de
> into the address bar, I navigate to the search field by pressing e.
> Because it does not annouce „focus mode“, I want to press tab followed
> by shift+tab. On the Intel notebook this procedure works as expected, on
> the AMD, however, there is no reaction after pressing tab. The system is
> not frozen but it feels like it for some time. Trying different things
> to move somewhere else like pressing arrow keys, f6 to get to the
> address bar or multiple tabs may cause some reaction eventually, but I
> fail to get to the search field in focus mode.
>
> Do you have an idea how to find the cause for this behaviour? I suspect
> a difference in the Firefox configuration (or some lower level) but I
> really have no idea where to start. I used to run the Mate desktop
> environment on the AMD system for a while but had issues there, so I
> swithed back to the default Ubuntu Gnome 3 environment. On the Intel
> system it has always been the default Gnome 3 environment. The current
> Firefox version on both systems is 91.0.2.
>
> Perhaps you can give me a hint.
>
> Thank you in advance and best wishes,
>
> Elias
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