In bug 526733 we tried to get a unit test landing for testing out notification bars and other things relating to installations of extensions in content tabs via application/x-xpinstall types. We need to complete fixing up those tests and getting them to land. See comments 6 to 10 on that bug. Assigning to Andrew as he did the original mods.

I took a brief look at this today, as I need to use the notificationbars in a different test... This patch is basically the same file as we originally landed with bug 526733, with the exception that there is a 55 millisecond sleep added at the end of install.xpi. It still fails occasionally on my setup, but a lot less with this in. My current theory is that either: - mozmill is trying to do stuff too soon after the modal xpinstall dialog or - the modal xpinstall dialog is blocking the notification going away until the modal dialog has cleared, and it just doesn't fire the AlertFired notification as a result.

(hence asking asuth what he thinks about this).

Please attach a log of the failure with your extra debug. It doesn't fail for me, and the log would simplify my analysis.

Here's the log of the failure with some added debugging, but don't let this get in the way of b2 stuff...

I've looked at this a bit, but I think this is one of those cases where we either: A) Need more data. or B) Need to just crank timeouts up. 'A' implies having bug 556848 resolved so we can get structured data out. B seems straightforward. rs=asuth to randomly add and increase timeouts as the situation demands.

Unit tests have moved to bug 571759 now that there's a revised add-on manager implementation.

Fixed by attachment 503816 [details] [diff] [review] in bug 571759