617807 - Litmus test failure: 8: [sessionstore:forms] non-ssl PRIVACY_ENCRYPTED, All bytes »

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[B.J. Herbison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.12 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
Build Identifier: 4.0b8pre (installed from Nightly Builds on 8 December 2010)

https://litmus.mozilla.org/run_tests.cgi?test_run_id=244
Test failed: 8

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
    Close Firefox if it is open
    Find the prefs.js file in your profile folder (see Profile Locations below) and open it for editing
    Add

    user_pref("browser.sessionstore.postdata", -1);

    to the bottom of the prefs.js file, save and quit
    Start Firefox
    Load this test form
    Note the counter and timestamp
    Modify some of the form field data
    Submit the form
    Kill Firefox (see Steps below)
    Start Firefox
    If the Restore Session error page appears, restore your session
    If a POSTDATA Expired From Cache dialog appears, click OK

Actual Results:  
The date changed, but the counter stayed the same.

Expected Results:  
After restoring the session your form data, the counter, and the timestamp should be restored

Comment 1

[u279076]

It's simply enough to mark a test in Litmus as FAIL.  In this case, the test actually just needs updating, in which case you should report as BROKEN.  It's not necessary to file a bug for a broken Litmus test unless there is an actual bug with Firefox.

Thanks.