On 05-10-2025 11:58, Didier Kryn wrote:
> 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


Orca is a screen reader program for visually impaired persons. For whom
a working screen reader at install is a necessity.