1100301 - browser_aboutHome_behavior.js leaks global windows when --run-by-dir

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

in bug 1082133 we refactored the tests to have the aboutHome portion of the search behavior tests in a separate file.  The original intention was to do this and disable it until we could fix it.  Luckily this works pretty well for all platforms, but is a perma fail on windows 7 and 8 (not xp) when we run tests in --run-by-dir mode.

You can look at comment 26 - 31 to see that we tried adjusting timeouts and it didn't help much.

I suspect there is something fishy going on here, maybe something related to aboutHome or something we can do in the test case.

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/82dfe4ee980b

Comment 2

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

this test is now disabled in all cases, luckily it is a combination of subtests so we are not disabling much functionality.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Joel Maher (:jmaher) from comment #2)
> this test is now disabled in all cases, luckily it is a combination of
> subtests so we are not disabling much functionality.

I thought the leak problem was only on Windows? did I read it wrong?
Why is it not just disabled on Windows?

Comment 4

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

once this was live, we had a couple instances on linux and a couple on osx.  Windows was 100% failure, these others were >20% failure.

If you have further ideas on how I could aid in getting to the root cause or narrow this down, I would be happy to work on it!

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/82dfe4ee980b

Comment 6

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

forgot to mark this as leave-open

Comment 7

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

this test isn't in the source tree anymore