I have already filed bug 1255095 about this, as you are far from the first
person to be confused by this!

Andrew

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Felipe G <fel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, --e10s enables e10s in the browser for mochitest-chrome.  However,
>> the test harness is a .xul file opened in a tab, and that runs that tab as
>> non-remote, so for most tests it ends up testing the same thing as not
>> using --e10s. Other tabs and/or windows opened manually by the test would
>> be remote.
>>
>
> D'oh, I have been working on this stuff and I didn't realize that's the
> case (I was operating as if a passing mochitest-chrome when run in e10s
> actually works with e10s).  That's extremely confusing.  :(  Should we
> refuse to accept --e10s when running mochitest-chrome to help avoid this
> confusion?
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-03-24 1:25 PM, Andrew McCreight wrote:
>>> > One potential sticking point is mochitest-chrome. It currently does not
>>> >> get run in e10s in CI, so local configuration should mirror this.
>>> >> However, since --e10s is being removed, this means it would be
>>> >> impossible to run mochitest-chrome in e10s without modifying source
>>> >> files. Maybe this just needs some argparse hackery.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > My impression was that mochitest-chrome doesn't actually run with e10s,
>>> > even when you specify the flag. Is that not correct?
>>>
>>> No.  You currently can force it to run in e10s with --e10s like other
>>> mochitest variants.
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Ehsan
>
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