Re: Two versions of Firefox, two different annoying bugs.

2017-09-28 Thread Linux for blind general discussion 
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:27:17 +0300
Linux for blind general discussion  wrote:

> Hi Jeffery,
> 
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:50:50 +
> Linux for blind general discussion  wrote:
> 
> > Okay, so I recently upgraded my main machine to Knoppix 8. Initially,
> > I was glad that a long standing bug that causes Orca to go silent
> > whenever I open a file dialog box in firefox, if not outright crash
> > something hard enough to force me back to text-mode had been fixed,
> > but then I realized the default version of Firefox in Knoppix 8 is
> > Firefox 52, aka, the version that dropped ALSA support.
> > 
> > At first, I thought, no big deal, I'll just switch to Firefox ESR and
> > get my ability to listen to YouTube videos back, but apparently, the
> > file dialog is still silent in Firefox ESR, and after months of not
> > being able to save pages or upload files, I don't relish the idea of
> > giving it up again now that it works again.
> > 
> > I could just switch between the two versions as needed, but that's not
> > exactly convient, so I decided to bite the bullet and Install
> > pulseaudio, but I'm still without audio when YouTube videos play.
> > Everything is still talking properly both in the console and the GUI,
> > and I can still play local media from the terminal, but Firefox itself
> > remains silent.
> > 
> > So, does anyone know how to get Firefox working with Pulseaudio, how
> > to get Orca to read file dialogs in Firefox-ESR, know of a Firefox
> > extension that re-adds ALSA support, or of a decent command-line
> > client for listening to YouTube?
> >   
> 
> 1. firefox-52.3.0-2.mga7 on Mageia v7 x86-64 works well enough without
> pulseaudio - I hear sound well here -
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxmWBHCGn4 (just checked). Note that I am not
> sight-impaired or anything.
> 

I should note that that version of FF from mozilla.org does not work without
pulseaudio, so it may be a dowmstream mageia patch.


> 2. I use https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ to download videos from youtube and
> other sites from the command line, and it works well.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Shlomi
> 



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Re: Two versions of Firefox, two different annoying bugs.

2017-09-24 Thread Linux for blind general discussion 
Hi Jeffery,

On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:50:50 +
Linux for blind general discussion  wrote:

> Okay, so I recently upgraded my main machine to Knoppix 8. Initially,
> I was glad that a long standing bug that causes Orca to go silent
> whenever I open a file dialog box in firefox, if not outright crash
> something hard enough to force me back to text-mode had been fixed,
> but then I realized the default version of Firefox in Knoppix 8 is
> Firefox 52, aka, the version that dropped ALSA support.
> 
> At first, I thought, no big deal, I'll just switch to Firefox ESR and
> get my ability to listen to YouTube videos back, but apparently, the
> file dialog is still silent in Firefox ESR, and after months of not
> being able to save pages or upload files, I don't relish the idea of
> giving it up again now that it works again.
> 
> I could just switch between the two versions as needed, but that's not
> exactly convient, so I decided to bite the bullet and Install
> pulseaudio, but I'm still without audio when YouTube videos play.
> Everything is still talking properly both in the console and the GUI,
> and I can still play local media from the terminal, but Firefox itself
> remains silent.
> 
> So, does anyone know how to get Firefox working with Pulseaudio, how
> to get Orca to read file dialogs in Firefox-ESR, know of a Firefox
> extension that re-adds ALSA support, or of a decent command-line
> client for listening to YouTube?
> 

1. firefox-52.3.0-2.mga7 on Mageia v7 x86-64 works well enough without
pulseaudio - I hear sound well here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxmWBHCGn4 (just checked). Note that I am not
sight-impaired or anything.

2. I use https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ to download videos from youtube and
other sites from the command line, and it works well.

Regards,

Shlomi

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Two versions of Firefox, two different annoying bugs.

2017-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion 
Okay, so I recently upgraded my main machine to Knoppix 8. Initially,
I was glad that a long standing bug that causes Orca to go silent
whenever I open a file dialog box in firefox, if not outright crash
something hard enough to force me back to text-mode had been fixed,
but then I realized the default version of Firefox in Knoppix 8 is
Firefox 52, aka, the version that dropped ALSA support.

At first, I thought, no big deal, I'll just switch to Firefox ESR and
get my ability to listen to YouTube videos back, but apparently, the
file dialog is still silent in Firefox ESR, and after months of not
being able to save pages or upload files, I don't relish the idea of
giving it up again now that it works again.

I could just switch between the two versions as needed, but that's not
exactly convient, so I decided to bite the bullet and Install
pulseaudio, but I'm still without audio when YouTube videos play.
Everything is still talking properly both in the console and the GUI,
and I can still play local media from the terminal, but Firefox itself
remains silent.

So, does anyone know how to get Firefox working with Pulseaudio, how
to get Orca to read file dialogs in Firefox-ESR, know of a Firefox
extension that re-adds ALSA support, or of a decent command-line
client for listening to YouTube?

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Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.

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