462483 - Eliminate use of enablePrivilege in mochitest

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Mochitest, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As discussed in today's meeting, we want to nuke enablePrivilege from orbit.  This means that we need a different solution for mochitests.  Some of these should probably just be chrome tests.  For others we were considering exposing some sort of global object that can be used to evaluate privileged code (especially including EventUtils stuff) or something.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I think if we could provide a privileged object with test-only APIs that we could hack whatever we needed into it (like most of the helpers in SimpleTest.js), we would not need any privileged code in tests.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

bug 523896 would be a great way to fix this, IMO.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

For the record, since this bug hasn't been updated in a year, bug 582472 added a "SpecialPowers" object that has privileges, and we're going to add a bunch of APIs to it and fix all the tests. Bugs blocking this one will track that work.

Comment 4

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

We've already done.