375874 - Accessibility: Major crashes with JAWS and Window-eyes and the latest nightly builds

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Victor Tsaran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; yie6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 1.9.20070.32403

Both JAWS and Window-eyes crash when opening Thunderbird from several nightly builds ago. I am not sure when the problem started, but it definitely appeared within the last several nightly builds.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start either JAWS and Window-eyes screen readers.
2. Start Thunderbird 3.0A from the nightly builds trunk.
3.
Actual Results:  
The window will either close completely or will produce "Mozilla Agent" error window.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should start as it always did.

I think something must be happening when screen readers try to obtain Gecko's accessible objects.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Victor do you still see this crash using a current nightly build?  
If it is gone, please comment and close the bug WORKSFORME.  
If it is not gone, please give us an update.

Comment 2

[Victor Tsaran]

I believe, it is not occurring any more.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

thanks for closing the bug, however if you click "resolution" you will find that WORKSFORME is the proper closure, i.e. we don't know what fixed this.