589516 - Benchmark fails to work under trunk

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[mdew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100821 Minefield/4.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100821 Minefield/4.0b5pre

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/benchmark/utils.js :: loadFile :: line 4"  data: no]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/fanboy-adblock.txt into the benchmark
2. Click "Run test"
3. No output (or occasionally outputting..very intermittent)
Actual Results:  
Generates the following error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/benchmark/utils.js :: loadFile :: line 4"  data: no]

Expected Results:  
Should output the Results:
"Time to load filters: xxxms
Average time for pattern matching: 0.xxxms (Loops: 1000)"

The function involved:

function loadFile(file) {
  var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
  request.open("GET", file, false);
  request.send(null);                  <=== stops here
  return request.responseText;
}

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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