GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 352154
Bon Echo's Add Bookmark dialog hangs Orca; Bon Echo crashes
Last modified: 2006-08-22 15:42:19 UTC
Please describe the problem: If Orca is running, getting into Bon Echo's Add Bookmark dialog hangs Orca and causes Bon Echo to crash. Steps to reproduce: 1. Launch Orca 2. Launch Firefox Bon Echo Beta 1 3. Press Control D Actual results: 1. The system hangs for a bit 2. Bon Echo eventually crashes 3. Orca hangs and its processes must be killed to resume normal operation Expected results: The above wouldn't happen. :) Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: I am using Ubuntu Edgy, Bon Echo Beta 1, and the latest (as of this moment) Orca from CVS HEAD. If Orca isn't running, I can add bookmarks as expected.
I'm able to make Bon Echo crash this way, but Orca doesn't seem to hang.
When I do it, I get a bunch of COMM_FAILURES. Orca tries 5 times and then gives up. But as best as I can tell, it tries 5 times each for lots and lots of events. The end result is that the system grinds to a (silent) halt until I terminate the Orca-related processes. On one of my machines, I also tend to get an AT-SPI crash. This does not seem to be the case (most of the time) on the other machine. Is there something I can do to help you track this down?
Earlier this year, we worked pretty hard to try to identify and resolve issues with accessibility to Firefox 2. After much discussion and work, the larger community (including the Firefox folks) decided that investing in Firefox 2 accessibility was not an efficient use of resources. So...we decided to focus on providing compelling access to Firefox 3. Over the summer, the Sun and IBM Firefox teams have been plugging away at this and they are almost ready for others to start taking it for a test ride. As such, our forward looking plans will be to start looking at Firefox 3 with Orca as soon as GNOME 2.16 is released. If you want to be on the cutting edge, you might try to beat us to the test ride and start looking at Firefox 3. :-)
Understood. Will do. :-)
I'm going to close this out with "won't fix," but that means politely for Firefox 2. We'll be much more aggressive for Firefox 3 and Orca V1.0+. Thanks!