Features/Firefox/Windows Plugin Hang UI/TestPlan

Windows Plugin Hang UI

Feature	Status	Dev Lead	QA Lead	Status
Windows Plugin Hang UI	In Planning		Manuela Muntean

Summary

• An UI presenting which plugin is unresponsive and allowing to kill it will be shown after each crash.
• Afterwards, plugins will be killed automatically after a longer timeout, between 45 and 60 seconds.
• This feature is available starting Firefox 19 Beta

Reference

• Wiki page

Use Cases to Test

Basic Functional Testing

• Steps to verify:
  • Install and launch Firefox
    
  • Install one or more plugins (i.e. Adobe Flash Player, Microsoft Silverlight)
    
  • Go to a website that uses the installed plugins (i.e. YouTube, Vimeo) and play one or more videos in different tabs
    
  • After a while, one or more plugins stop responding
    
• Expected result:
  • After a short amount of time (5 seconds) the normal browser UI will be overlayed with a dialog showing which plugin is not responding and allowing the user to kill that plugin
    

Edge Cases

• Also, the UI should occur with no problem after a few seconds if:
  
  • Multiple browser windows are available
    
  • Heavy user profile is loaded (large history, multiple bookmarks, user settings, tabs, add-ons)
    

Test Cases

• The test cases for this feature can be viewed [here]. (tests are still under development, will be updated)

Bugs

• bug 801806 - SecReview: Windows Plugin Hang UI - NEW