Le 05/10/2025 à 12:12, Nick via Dng a écrit :
> 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.

    Thanks for the explanation. Too bad that speech-dispatcher is  buggy!

--     Didier