GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 547477
Cursor navigation cycles through same text in Firefox--bugzilla page
Last modified: 2009-03-10 00:05:47 UTC
Please describe the problem: I commonly use the Orca find utility to quickly navigate to the "Additional Comments" field on Bugzilla pages. If the bug is flagged "need info", then cursor navigation upwards from this label gets caught in a cycle in the "Bugzilla tip" text. Continued pressing of the up arrow will read the three lines of the tip, then cycle back down to the bottom of these three lines, then read through them again. Steps to reproduce: 1. Launch Orca. 2. Launch Firefox. 3. Lon in on bugzilla and bring up a Bugzilla page that is flagged "Need Info". 4. Use the Orca find utility to navigate to the "Additional comments" label. 5. Repeatedly press the up arrow cursor key. Actual results: Orca reads the three lines of the "Bugzilla tip" in reverse order, then jumps down to the last line of the tip and begins reading the three lines of the tip again, and will continue to cycle through these three lines as long as you keep pressing the up arrow key. Expected results: Orca should read the three lines of the bugzilla tip in reverse order, them start reading the lines of the most recent comment in reverse order. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: Debug log to be attached.
Created attachment 116448 [details] partial debug log Partial debug log showing described behavior. This file was trimmed to start with the arrival on the relevant bugzilla page. This removed password information from the log. If you need all of the startup information for Orca, please let me know and I will edit out just the username and password portion of the log. Actions in this log are as follows: Used Orca find utility to navigate to "Additional comments" label. Once located on that label, pressed the up arrow key repeatedly to cycle through bugzilla tip several times. Finally, when reaching top of the tip, pressed left arrow key to escape the cycle.
I can confirm that this same behaviour occurs for me to. I spent a lot of time reading articles on www.toledoblade.com and, since the site does not utilize headers, I must use the find utility to search for the text that comprises the title of the article. When I arrive at the title line of the article, pressing down arrow often takes me through some zoom and picture links. Most of the time, I can reproduce that the same three or four lines are read over and over, in a loop, until I read by word - ctrl+right arrow - which breaks the loop.
Marking this as need info so that I can test. Sorry for the spam, and Dave I don't actually need anything from you. :-)
Hmmm.... I don't see a bugzilla tip....
Okay, I changed the status of a bug I opened and I see the tip now. With the default Orca settings we are not getting stuck. I think has something to do with not positioning the caret at the start of the line. Still investigating....
Created attachment 117257 [details] [review] revision 1 Please test.
I don't know if I have the permissions, but I'm trying to set the "need info" flag for testing.
This fix works well. Thanks, Joanie!
Thank you Dave! Patch committed to trunk. Moving to pending.