927361 - Test failure for 17.0ESR: "Shockwave Flash does not appear in about:plugins - got 'false'" in testAddons/testPluginDisableAffectsAboutPlugins.js because plugin is still listed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla QA Graveyard :: Mozmill Tests, defect, P2)

Description

[Cosmin Malutan, [:cosmin-malutan]]

In Esr17 we check if the plugin is listed in the about:plugins page and not if there is an property "disabled" in plugins content as we do for other branches.

Steps to reproduce:
1 Navigate the about:plugins
2 Open the Add-ons Manager
3 Disable a plugin
4 Navigate the about:plugins
5 Check if plugin is in page 
(It will be there and it shouldn't, if we skip step one the plugin won't be in the about:plugins page so I guess the page is cached somehow)

It doesn't reproduce on Windows and Mac only on Linux.
 
http://mozmill-daily.blargon7.com/#/functional/report/ec449c026814fd64783d738c0283a806

Comment 1

[Cosmin Malutan, [:cosmin-malutan]]

The machine on which I reproduced the failure is mm-ub-1304-32-3, I also seen this failure on mm-ub-1204-64-1 and mm-ub-1204-32-1.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Please use a different summary for a new bug. Otherwise most of our email applications will be confused. Once we know what a failure is about we should do it in any way.

Comment 3

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

Failed 4 times now with Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.04:
http://mozmill-daily.blargon7.com/#/functional/report/f54ca65f73fd56845c30b7ab7d08923b
http://mozmill-daily.blargon7.com/#/functional/report/f54ca65f73fd56845c30b7ab7d088946
http://mozmill-daily.blargon7.com/#/functional/report/f54ca65f73fd56845c30b7ab7d0867ec
http://mozmill-daily.blargon7.com/#/functional/report/f54ca65f73fd56845c30b7ab7d086029

Cosmin, if you can reproduce this manually, it's probably a Firefox bug. Please check on several machines, not just on the remote ones, to be sure it's not something set on those only.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

There is likely no chance to see this fixed for Firefox 17. Lets get this test disabled if it happens way too often.

Comment 5

[mario garbi]

Attachment: Skip patch for ESR17

Disabled the test by skipping it for ESR17.

Linux report:
http://mozmill-crowd.blargon7.com/#/functional/report/f54ca65f73fd56845c30b7ab7d1fff94

Comment 6

[Andreea Matei [:AndreeaMatei]]

Comment on attachment 818457 [details] [diff] [review]
Skip patch for ESR17

Review of attachment 818457 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Why are we skipping this on all platforms if just Linux is affected? Please do it only there.

Comment 7

[mario garbi]

Attachment: Skip patch v2

Updated the patch so that only Linux is disabled. Initially I understood that we want this test disabled for good on ESR17, thank you for clarifying this Andreea.

Comment 8

[Andrei Eftimie]

Has been failing roughly 2-4 times a day.
I'll get the skip landed.

Comment 9

[mario garbi]

Attachment: Skip patch v3

Updated the indentation of the previous skip patch.

Comment 10

[Andrei Eftimie]

Comment on attachment 819611 [details] [diff] [review]
Skip patch v3

Review of attachment 819611 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Looks good.
Disabled: http://hg.mozilla.org/qa/mozmill-tests/rev/c5a375b41667 (mozilla-esr17)

Comment 11

[Andrei Eftimie]

I'm guessing we should close this with WONTFIX as ESR17 won't see this fixed, and we just disabled the test on that branch.