GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 521634
Tree Tables in Thunderbird and Firefox broken
Last modified: 2008-05-27 21:09:52 UTC
This is a tracking bug for the following Mozilla bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421922 Tree Tables in Thunderbird and Firefox broken since fix for bug 418371
First coarse pass at GNOME 2.24 planning.
The original blocking bug was fixed, but now there seem to be new problems. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424161 Still blocked.
Tree tables are still severely broken with latest Firefox (Gecko 2008032204. About the only accurate information I can get from this is the total number of cells in that particular node. Pressing insert-Enter gave me varied results at best. In the best case, you would hear the correct name of the selected item and the index number of the list; but other times, it would appear to stick and appear that the arrow keys weren't working. It's really not much better than before the "recent patch." Frankly this makes the Organize Bookmarks feature very unusable.
Agreed. Sadly, if we're not getting valid information from Firefox or Thunderbird, there's not much we can do. Garbage in, garbage out. :-( Looks like we have yet another bug in the Mozilla bugzilla to track w.r.t. this issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424656
The blocking bug has been marked as fixed. Organize Bookmarks seems to be working for me. Steve what about you?
Yes, from an accessibility stand-point, the controls read much better. However, I did have some major stability issues this evening with the May 12th version of Firefox. It seems that while navigating around in the detail list of the expanded bookmarks list that firefox would frequently crash. One sure way to get this to happen is to navigate to the bookmarks menu and then tab once to the list of items within and arrow to the bottom; I used the end key. Then right click the item and select cur or copy. Then back tab to the tree and move up to another folder to place the cut/copied bookmark into it. Somewhere along here, FF will crash. I then used the Move option from the Organize pulldown menu and that worked better but after that successful operation, I did a ctrl-W to exit the organize bookmarks feature and I lost Orca completely. I had to do a ctrl-alt-backspace to get out of gnome and start the whole thing over. I could not restart Orce from the original gnome session, nor do anything else for that matter. So Orca reads the Organize bookmarks controls but there are stability issues that should be looked at.
Steve, I just tried to reproduce that problem and couldn't crash Firefox. I know they've been doing some work around tree tables. Is it still an issue with the latest build? Thanks.
I just downloaded and installed Firefox nightly build 2008-05-18-04 and the organize bookmarks dialog itself seems to look great. However I did crash firefox at least once this evening. What I did was move down the main treeview to find a bookmark menu with many items. I then tabbed into the generallist where I could move up and down and select for copying, etc. I then pressed end to go to the bottom of the list; i started moving up the list one by one and Firefox crashed with its crash/reporter routine. I sent the report. Once earlier after successfullying moving a single bookmark, I moved up and down the list and I lost speech and all gnome functionality. I had to ctrl-alt-backspace out and restart X twice before Orca was running properly. This is with Orca from SVN 3901.
Given that the original problem reported in this bug is no longer an issue, and given that Mike and I cannot reproduce the crash, and given that a Firefox crash is probably a Firefox bug, I am going to close this out as NOTGNOME. If we can find a reliable way to crash Firefox using Orca, then a Firefox bug should probably be filed....