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In January, I reported a bug in #Firefox for the #Mac where VoiceOver loses complete page contents under certain circumstances. The bug recently received a patch, and I was curious and discovered that I can still read Mozilla code without problems. :-) But I resisted the temptation to put the Firefox build system on my Mac and build it myself. ;-)

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1875629 - VoiceOver loses cache contents in background tabs if no element on the page is focused when switching away

NEW (eitan) in Core - Disability Access APIs. Last updated 2024-05-24.
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Jamie Teh
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Sorry it took us so long to get that fixed. That turned out to be a rather elusive problem.
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Marco Zehe
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@jcsteh Yeah, I thought so, since the behavior was totally weird, and I couldn’t get a more descriptive report for you. Looking forward to the fix. And I guess this was another of those undocumented properties that you just have to find somewhere else, AKA WebKit or so, to make it work.
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Marco Zehe
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Today, Firefox 128 was released which contains the patch mentioned in a previous post on this thread. And I cannot overstate how much of a quality improvement this is! Thanks again to the team to stick with it even though reproducing it was complicated, and fixing it so thoroughly.
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