Re: Help: why won't Thunderbird display mail in mochitest conditions?

2019-08-28 Thread Geoff Lankow
Just to wrap things up nicely, Gijs found the answer for me: mochitests run with e10s by default, even though Thunderbird's prefs are set for no e10s. Setting --disable-e10s makes my test work. (This is something that *would* work on the CI but not for me locally – now that would be a change f

Re: Help: why won't Thunderbird display mail in mochitest conditions?

2019-08-28 Thread Geoff Lankow
I've only recently noticed because until now we've had no mochitests that require displaying mail. (We have other test suites.) There's some leads here I can follow. I'm pretty sure we're at least getting to the loadURI but beyond that I don't know. This stuff is well outside my areas of exper

Re: Help: why won't Thunderbird display mail in mochitest conditions?

2019-08-28 Thread ISHIKAWA,chiaki
Hi, those familiar with test infrastructure I am sorry that I am piggybacking my question/comment on a not directly related topic. During xpcshell test of TB, no display (of X11, say, under linux) is shown. Is this a design decision and is to be expected? If TB tries to show an error messag

Re: Help: why won't Thunderbird display mail in mochitest conditions?

2019-08-28 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
On 26/08/2019 23:40, Geoff Lankow wrote: Hi Over the past year or so, I've been adding mochitests for new Thunderbird features. It's recently occurred to me that in a mochitest, Thunderbird does not display mail messages. Not even the message header list, just a blank rectangle where the mess

Re: Help: why won't Thunderbird display mail in mochitest conditions?

2019-08-28 Thread Geoff Lankow
They're browser mochitests, it's just a normal Thunderbird window. GL On 28/08/19 01:53, Andrew Sutherland wrote: Can you elaborate on the execution context?  Are these more like "browser" mochitests or "plain" mochitests? (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Mochitest#Ru

Re: Help: why won't Thunderbird display mail in mochitest conditions?

2019-08-27 Thread Andrew Sutherland
Can you elaborate on the execution context?  Are these more like "browser" mochitests or "plain" mochitests? (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Mochitest#Running_flavors_and_subsuites) Is the Thunderbird tabbed UI its own normal XUL window self, or is it framed inside so

Help: why won't Thunderbird display mail in mochitest conditions?

2019-08-26 Thread Geoff Lankow
Hi Over the past year or so, I've been adding mochitests for new Thunderbird features. It's recently occurred to me that in a mochitest, Thunderbird does not display mail messages. Not even the message header list, just a blank rectangle where the message should be. Obviously this is quite i