GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 534541
Orca with mouse review enabled crashes Firefox 2.X and Thunderbird 2.X
Last modified: 2008-09-02 15:25:58 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1/ Make sure that you have mouse review enabled. I.e: orca.settings.enableMouseReview = True in your ~/.orca/user-settings.py 2/ Make sure you have Firefox 2.x and/or Thunderbird 2.x running. 3/ Start Orca. 4/ Wiggle you mouse around a lot. Don't have to go anywhere near Firefox or Thunderbird (I had them on a different workspace). Expected Results: Nothing special Actual Results: Firefox and Thunderbird go belly up. I'll attach an Orca debug log.
Created attachment 111436 [details] Orca debug log generated whilst testing this problem. Couple of COMM_FAILURES (line 398 and 437).
Talked to Will about this one. We could certainly put a try/except block around the failing line, and that would catch the COMM_FAILURES but that wouldn't stop the application at the other end from crashing. If we submitted a bug against Firefox/Thunderbird 2.x (knowing that this isn't a problem with Firefox/Thunderbird 3.x), that we can't really expect the Firefox/Thunderbird developers to fix it. They are more then likely to tell us to just use the 3.X version. So eventually, we are going to close this bug as WONTFIX. I'm keeping it open so that when Orca 2.24.0 is released, we can update the Wiki ( http://live.gnome.org/Orca/ConfigurationGui ) and add in a note to say that enabling mouse review can cause Firefox/Thunderbird 2.X applications to crash. For now, I'm also changing the priority/severity to Low/Minor.
WIKI updated with latest GUI and also to include the crasher comment.