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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng@lists.dyne.org
Subject: Re: [DNG] Firefox issue: speech-dispatcher
Le 05/10/2025 à 11:35, Nick via Dng a écrit :
> On 05-10-2025 11:27, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>     Hi.
>>
>>     Firefox shows the following issue when visiting some sites: a
>> "helper" process named speech-dispatcher, or something near that,
>> consumes 100% of CPU time for apparently nothing (I guess some
>> infinite loop), and causes an increase of fan speed to evacuate the
>> heat, which is how I detect it. Is there some way to disable
>> launching that process?
>>
>>     Thanks.
>>
>> --     Didier
> If you do not need text to speech you can just uninstall
> speech-dispatcher.


    Didn't know it was the name of a package (probably installed
without asking). Uninstallation forced the removal of Orca which I don't
know what it does. It also made a lot of packages useless, which I
happily removed (~:

    Thanks.

--     Didier