516613 - fennec pref to disable prompts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

As of late, we've noticed a bunch of tests are throwing up a prompt (of the "Do you wish to continue" or "login to localhost:8888 proxy" or whatever variety) that hang the test.

I imagine this is the culprit that's killing mochitests, if not other tests as well; buildbot will kill the entire test suite once a no-output timeout is hit.

We could go through test-by-test and try to fix these; I thought perhaps a pref that disables all prompts (or gives a default "cancel" or "ok" answer automatically?) would be a faster way to get these test suites to finish.  Not sure if that's possible, but that would possibly solve a lot of issues at once.

Comment 1

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

A couple screenshots will be attached shortly.  One is an example is a popup that says "place is not a registered protocol" and another one is a totally grey screen with a single ok button in the center and the background grayed out with a pop up that says
"a script on this page has been stoped due to a low memory condition"
on a url that is 
http://localhost:8888/tests/dom/tests/mochitest/dom-level1-?????

Comment 2

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

Attachment: oom

Comment 3

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

Attachment: popup

Comment 4

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Stuart, Clint: any idea who is best suited to work on this? Its tripping up unittests on our production n810s, so some help would be great.

Comment 5

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Stuart, Clint: any idea who is best suited to work on this? Its tripping up
> unittests on our production n810s, so some help would be great.

Also, if it makes more sense to instead go through the tests that are triggering the prompts, thats fine too. We just need to get the tests un-hanging.

Comment 6

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

There isn't a pref currently afaik, but it looks like we've solved whatever specific problem(s) were causing prompts to pop up during tests. Resolving.