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Firefox 3.1 beta3 Test Results

The covered testing for this release will focus on smoketests, bfts, l10n, top plugins, top financial sites, updates, and spotchecks.

Related Pages

Firefox 3.1 Tracking Site

• beta 3 features

Contact Info

PM: Mike Beltzner (beltzner)
Build: John O'Duinn (joduinn)
QA: tester / others

Schedule

Code Freeze

3/3

Builds hand to QA

3/5

QA test signoff

3/11

• See Test Coverage below

Build Location and IDs

Download:

• Build 1: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.1b3-candidates/build1/
• Build 2: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.1b3-candidates/build2/

Builds:

• Build 1:
  • Mac 10.5: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Mac 10.4: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Windows: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Linux: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3 (20090304215011)

• Build 2:
  • Mac 10.5: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Mac 10.4: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Mac 10.5 PPC: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Linux: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Windows XP: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
  • Windows 7: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3

Test Coverage

• Areas Covered:
  • Smoketests
  • BFTs
  • L10n
  • Top Plugins
  • Top Financial Sites
  • Updates
  • Spotchecks & Webpages
  • Bug Fixes

• Areas Not Covered:
  • FFTs
  • Topsites (covered in nightly automation)
  • Top Themes
  • Accessibility

Test Results

Types of Tests	Windows XP	Mac OSX	Linux
Smoketests	Henrik - PASS	Aakash - PASS	juanb - PASS
BFTs	Aakash/Henrik - PASS	marcia - result	juanb - result
L10n	Tony - PASS	Tony - PASS	Tony - PASS
Top Plugins	Aakash - PARTIAL	Murali - PARTIAL	Murali - PARTIAL
Top Financial sites	Tony - result	Marcia - result	Tony - result
Updates	Henrik Betatest - result releasetest - result Beta - result	Murali Betatest - result releasetest - result Beta - result	Aakash/Tony Betatest - result releasetest - result Beta - result
Staging/Live Webpages & Spotchecks & Webpages	<web tester>, Henrik - result	<web tester>, Aakash - result	<web tester>, Tony - result

Smoketest Testing

Lite verification tests (or smoketests) will be first ran when the builds are ready. Tests are available on litmus under the Firefox 3.1 test suite. In any case the Smoketests result, we will raise blockers asap before proceeding with the bfts.

Please record your detailed results in the section below.

Note - For windows testing, please also make a smoketest pass against windows 7 beta

BFT / FFT Testing

BFTs are a more comprehensive set of litmus tests that cover the build testing after smoketests result. Tests are available on litmus under the Firefox 3.1 test suite.

FFTs are a full comprehensive set of litmus tests that extend coverage in areas that BFTs dont often get to. These are run at least once during the major milestone timeline.

If you are running a BFT or FFT, Please record your detailed results in the section below.

Updates Testing

We will be doing updates of all Alpha users to beta3. We will be checking complete updates, and resultover scenarios.

Will be available on betatest, releasetest, and beta channels.

Testcases and Results are tracked here.

L10N

Visual inspection: Go through the P1 list of locales, and run a spotcheck to see if everything visually looks fine. Refer to Fx3.1 L10N Requirements for more specifics.

Testcases and Results are tracked here.

Results:

• [tchung] bug 475032 - detected by hand that mac ko locale was missing from the /build2 directory. Build Slave glitch, being manually rebuilt.

Top Plugins Testing

Select a few top plugins from AMO and perform the following testcases. (examples: Flash, Acrobat, Java, Real Player)

Testcases:

• Enabling extensions and confirming web compatibility
• Disabling or Uninstalling plugins and confirming proper messaging and behavior
• Switch profiles and verify plugins are still working properly

Testcases and Results are tracked here.

Top Financial Sites Testing

• Select a few top Banking sites
• Select a few top Financial sites

Testcases:

• Login/logout, verify functionality
• Look for any layout discrepencies
• Make a financial transaction if possible
• Be sure to test in private browsing mode also

Staging/Live Spotchecks & Webpages

1) Verify the following webpages that gets pushed to staging and then to the live sites. Look for content messaging, spelling mistakes, broken links & imnages, etc..

• Firstrun page (Staging link)
• Whatsnew Page (Staging link)
• Releasenotes page (Staging link)

2) Check live site download links on all platforms. Please cover en-US, and 2 or 3 additional Tier 1 locales as well. Pay attention to the following areas:

• Check for signed installer and applications (windows only)
• Firstrun page, whatsnew page, Home page, Search plugin
• Install, uninstall
• General spotchecks and browser functionality
• Confirm Build IDs

Fixed Bugs Verifications

The following bugs are fixed for beta 3 and need verifications:

• Firefox/Platform 1.9.1 bugs: http://tinyurl.com/8guodt

Testday

A beta3 testday will be held and call for the community support to assist with testing. Activities include executing litmus testcases, bug verifications, and focus on the new feature areas that are being implemented. More can be found on QMO.

Detailed Results

Smoketests Results

Windows XP [Henrik]

• Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
• Results
  • Build 1 (20090304233338) PASS - Results in Litmus (Complete)
  • Build 2 (20090305152042) PASS - Results in Litmus (Install/Uninstall)

• Notes:
  • [Henrik]: filed bug 481714 - Switching to "Always ask" for file types handled by plugins don't work

Mac [Aakash]

• Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3 ID:20090304214853
• Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3 ID:20090305133223

• [tchung] Filed bug bug 481680 - [Mac OSX] Beta 3 build 1 are showing "Mozilla Firefox3.1b3" in window title
  • Blocker filed, fix will land in build 2 respin.
• [aakash] Filed bug bug 481694 - Home Page not imported from Safari

Linux [Juan]

• Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
  • 20090304215011
• Status: PASS
• Bugs:
  • Reopened (eventually re-Resolved) - bug 475066 - unable to detach tabs,
  • Opened new bug and nominated blocking 3.1 - bug 481693 - unable to detach tabs in Linux
  • Cannot (should not?) create web shortcuts. There is an existing bug, but I need to dig it out. It's also related to tabbed browsing (tear off).

Spotchecks [marcia]

• Filed bug 481687 - Regression that affects only Mac

Plugins Testing

Linux [Murali]

• Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
  • 20090305134136
  • Status: Partial

• The Linux build has more leaks when firefox is run from commandline.

• Verified the JRE bug 474866 as fixed.

• Filed a bug 481963 which seems to be a DUP of 477110 [ Ref: Tomcat ]

• The following plugins fail to work on Linux

• Real Video crashes with Linux build. Known issue.

• Viewpoint Media player, IPIX are not tested.

• Final result is PARTIAL

MAC OS X86 [Murali]

• View Point Media Plugin : Failure
• IPIX : Not Applicable for MAC

• Rest of the plugins from testing page are good.

• Updated the results page for MAC as partial.

BFT Results

Windows XP [Henrik/Aakash]

• Build 1: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
• Results
  • Build 1 (20090304233338) PASS - Results in Litmus (Mostly all)
  • Build 2 (20090305152042) PASS - Results in Litmus (Remaining + Tabs)
• Notes:
  • [Henrik]: bug 463088, Tearing-off a tab to desktop shows denied cursor
  • [Henrik]: Filed bug 481775 Crash in [@ nsCookieService::RemoveCookieFromList(nsListIter&)]
  • [Henrik] Sometimes after removing a ssl cert the page is still loaded and doesn't show the ssl exception page. No bug filed so far. Have to check why it happens.
  • [Henrik] Leaving Private Browsing mode doesn't show up SSL sites only for each second time (not everytime) - commented in bug 463256
  • [Henrik] bug 468700 - Having "Ask me Everytime" enabled for Cookies during Private Browsing is unusable - asked for blocking1.9.1.
  • [Henrik] Filed bug 481785 - No indication of 'Private Browsing' in window title when having enabled "Always on" Private Browsing Mode
  • [Henrik] Filed bug 481786 - Current session data is getting lost when starting Firefox in "Always On" mode
  • [Henrik] Filed bug 481791 - about:privatebrowsing page doesn't show a button when staying in private browsing mode
  • [Henrik] Updated bug 134002, Content of plugins (flash, java applets) doesn't get rendered for printing or print preview
  • [Henrik] bug 426260, Yahoo doesn't correctly decode the parameters served by the email handler
  • [tchung] Reopened bug 436686, Flash fails to play on windows 7, flash 10.0.22.87
  • [aakash] Filed bug 481762 - Clearing tag via typed-text does not un-check checkbox
  • [aakash] Filed bug 481767 - Tag field overlay issue when 2 or more bookmarks in the same tag
  • [aakash] Filed bug 481904 - Tab dragging in Scroll can not move freely from Left to Right
  • [aakash] Added comments to bug 405511 - Dragging a tab onto its content area reloads that page

Mac [Marcia]

• Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090304 Firefox/3.1b3
• Flash version is Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
• The Following Areas of BFT were run with Build 1:
  • Migration
  • Menu Bar

• Notes
  • [Marcia/Henrik]: bug 476928 - Slow closing of tabs when entering Private Browsing mode
  • [Henrik]: bug 473467 file picker dialog sometimes doesn't close when Open is clicked
  • [marcia]: Bug 481908 Right clicking on video using Flash 10 causes screen to white out
  • [marcia]: Bug 481915 [Mac] View Certificate "General Tab" looks to be an active field that can be edited
  • [marcia]: Bug 481913 In certain instances "View Cookies" button in Page Info does not open Cookies dialog
  • [marcia]: Bug 481951 Print dialog very slow to open the first time

Linux [juanb]

• Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
  • 20090305134136
  • Status: in progress: 40-50%