1161039 - Various serviceworker web-platform tests are going to permafail when Gecko 40 merges to Beta due to "self.caches is undefined"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 1163829

Description

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=7172227&repo=try

17:01:06 INFO - TEST-START | /service-workers/cache-storage/common.https.html
17:01:06 INFO - PROCESS | 2142 | WARNING: content window passed to PrivateBrowsingUtils.isWindowPrivate. Use isContentWindowPrivate instead (but only for frame scripts).
17:01:06 INFO - PROCESS | 2142 | pbu_isWindowPrivate@resource://gre/modules/PrivateBrowsingUtils.jsm:25:14
17:01:06 INFO - PROCESS | 2142 | nsBrowserAccess.prototype.openURI@chrome://browser/content/browser.js:15522:21
17:01:06 INFO - PROCESS | 2142 | __marionetteFunc@dummy file:19:30
17:01:06 INFO - PROCESS | 2142 | @dummy file:28:3
17:01:06 INFO - PROCESS | 2142 | executeWithCallback@chrome://marionette/content/listener.js:743:5
17:01:06 INFO - PROCESS | 2142 | executeAsyncScript@chrome://marionette/content/listener.js:642:3
17:01:07 INFO - TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | /service-workers/cache-storage/common.https.html | Window sees cache puts by Worker - self.caches is undefined
17:01:07 INFO - @https://web-platform.test:8443/service-workers/cache-storage/common.https.html:20:5
17:01:07 INFO - Test.prototype.step@https://web-platform.test:8443/resources/testharness.js:1304:20
17:01:07 INFO - promise_test@https://web-platform.test:8443/resources/testharness.js:461:25
17:01:07 INFO - @https://web-platform.test:8443/service-workers/cache-storage/common.https.html:18:1
17:01:07 INFO - TEST-OK | /service-workers/cache-storage/common.https.html | took 868ms

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Comment 1

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

I think we can either disable these tests in beta or add the dom.caches.enabled pref to every .ini file.  James, is there a way to do this without a ton of ini files?

Comment 2

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

Ehsan fixed this in bug 1163829.