809783 - Fix test_maxSniffing.html (Error: Permission denied to access property 'documentElement' at http://mochi.test:8888/tests/suite/browser/test/test_maxSniffing.html:27)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Feed Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Philip Chee]

> I guess the below mochitest-5 failure stems from this bug. I think 
> test_maxSniffing needs to be turned into a chrome test (like the FF original) to 
> fix the permission problem:
> 
> WINNT 5.2 comm-central-trunk debug test mochitests-5/5 on 2012/11/07 10:04:43
> s: sea-win32-04
> 3775 ERROR TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | 
> /tests/suite/browser/test/test_maxSniffing.html | an unexpected uncaught JS 
> exception reported through window.onerror - Error: Permission denied to access 
> property 'documentElement' at 
> http://mochi.test:8888/tests/suite/browser/test/test_maxSniffing.html:27
> 
> I don't have a working build right now but will look into this within the next 
> few days (unless someone reading this gets to it faster). In its own bug of 
> course, depend on this one and to be pushed to everything up to/including at 
> least beta. Once it's fixed, mochitest-5 should be green again. :-)

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

Attachment: Patch v1.0 Proposed fix.

I had this patch sitting in my tree for about a week but kept forgetting about it.

Comment 2

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Comment on attachment 679588 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1.0 Proposed fix.

Verified locally. Please get this fixed on branches, too.

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

Pushed to comm-central:
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/32181af272a3

Comment 4

[Philip Chee]

Pushed to branches:
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-aurora/rev/2fd086fad5fc
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/daa3c95e0213