[SOLVED] firefox 11 -- keyboard popup and unrelenting text to speech

[Nick Urbanik]

Dear Folks,

On 27/03/12 17:54 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote:
>Dear Folks,
>
>On 21/03/12 05:58 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>On 03/20/2012 03:45:26 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
>>>On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:10 PM, suvayu ali
>>><fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> If there is any mention of this, I can't discover it.
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure its firefox and not a malfunctioning on screen
>>>keyboard
>>>app?
>>>
>>>That happened to me. Just quit Firefox and reboot your computer -- in
>>>my case this was enough to solve the problem.
>>
>>Alas, this did not work for me, but thanks for the reply.
>
>Had exactly the same problem, with XFCE.  There is a package called
>caribou-antler-0.4.1-3.fc16.x86_64
>Description :
>This package contains caribou keyboard implementation
>
>I killed the process and the keyboard disappeared.
>
>However, my firefox is also chattering incessantly; in an attempt to
>stop it, i went to about:config, changed a configuration item; I think
>it was accessibility:usetexttospeech, and changed it from default to
>false.
>
>Then any attempt to type anything into the URL bar caused firefox to
>lock up.  I rebooted the computer, and the chattering is back, but at
>least I can type URLs.
>
>I do not have either of these problems with four other computers, just
>one at work.  I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

Solution: see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805514,
which points to https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8589, which
indicates that you need to disable GNOME Services.  This is a check
box:
Settings -> Session and Startup -> Advanced [tab] -> uncheck Launch
GNOME services on startup.

After logging out and back in, my Firefox is mute and caribou keyboard
free.
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