570328 - make SimpleTest.executeSoon work on Gecko browsers in non-mochitest profiles

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Mochitest, defect)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Attachment: patch

Much of our mochitests in many cases work fine on other browsers, which is often quite useful when writing mochitests for Web standards features.  However, tests that use executeSoon (which I think may mean all tests now, although I'm not sure), don't work on Gecko browsers not run from the mochitest harness itself.  I often find it useful to run mochitests in a browsers not within the harness (especially to check if a test that I just wrote fails without my patch; I can just run it in the browser that I'm using).

So this fixes executeSoon so that its fallback codepath works when enablePrivilege fails (in addition to when Components.classes doesn't exist).

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e89ae2aa45eb