610072 - Typing in Mozmill cases on mozilla1.9.1 is broken

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 572143

(Testing Graveyard :: Mozmill, defect)

Description

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

While working on an AwesomeBar testcase, I noticed that text wasn't being typed into the location bar when AwesomeBar cases are run on 1.9.1 Firefox. These are working fine on Trunk and 1.9.2 when tested. I tested all of the AwesomeBar cases.

After some discussions on IRC, I also tried the password manager testcases that use controller.type() to type into textboxes in a window. These are also broken.

This was found on OS X 10.6 running Mozmill 1.5.1rc2.

Comment 1

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

Attachment: Repro case using mozmill and mozmill-tests hg repo

Place this in your /firefox/testAwesomeBar directory or one at a similar depth
in your mozmill-tests repo and run it.

I didn't add an explicit assert of the failure but if you run it on 1.9.1, you
won't see a navigation to twitter. If you run it on 1.9.2, you will.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

It looks like that something is broken with on your new box. We should investigate when you are in the office next week.

Comment 3

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

Did you check this on other boxes to verify that this is a local problem only to me? What boxes did you check on? Remember, this is 1.9.1 only.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

No one else complained about it and our results from the daily test-runs don't show any problems in that area. Even locally everything is fine. I have also never heard from that before. All that gives me the impression that it is a local issue on your box.

Comment 5

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

Can you actually personally try it on your OS X 10.6 machine with the 1.9.1 branch in order to be sure?

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

Please see my last comment.

Comment 7

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

Turns out that this is a focus problem with Firefox on 1.9.1. It doesn't grab focus when instantiated by mozmill, causing tests to fail if other applications are open. This is a known issue.

Comment 8

[Geo Mealer [:geo] -- This account is inactive after 2015-07-07]

Duping it to the mozmill bug causing the problem. Still probably won't fix it, but I want it findable just in case.