There are failures for browser_install.js, browser_list.js, browser_recentupdates.js and browser_uninstalling.js. The first one times out, so perhaps the other failures are the result of that timeout. This only happens on our Linux tinderbox, example log: http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=SeaMonkey/1286861469.1286863917.16677.gz Checkins in the regression range: http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=bfd1320b39ac&tochange=e957ea752a74 http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=a8212bca66fb&tochange=5a41a70eb631

Yeah, I had noticed it after the last perma-oranges failures were fixed. It seems to be +/- all platforms. For example: http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=SeaMonkey/1286831834.1286836620.11879.gz WINNT 5.2 comm-central-trunk debug test mochitest-other on 2010/10/11 14:17:14

I've found the reason for the first failure, browser_install.js simply takes too long. The test passed on my local machine in 14.766s, so I've summed up the the times from the single tests and got to 28.659s until test 12 starts. So we hit a timeout during test 12 and never get to test 13. Firefox is also affected: http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/topfails/test/Firefox?name=chrome://mochitests/content/browser/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/browser/browser_install.js @Dave: You wrote the test, could it be split somehow or get a longer timeout?

It could, but it's easier to just extend the timeout.

I think factor 2 should be enough, but we'll have to wait what for the actual tinderbox runs.

Checked in as http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e3701c6f77fd Waiting for test results, if it was enough before marking it fixed.

I don't see the timeout anymore for SeaMonkey and the following tests are passing too, so marking as fixed.

http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/topfails/test/SeaMonkey?name=chrome://mochitests/content/browser/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/browser/browser_install.js First = 2010-10-07 00:32 SeaMonkey Linux Last = 2010-10-12 16:33 SeaMonkey WINNT 5.2 V.Fixed *** Though the last 3 seems to be after check-in time: { # 2010-10-12 16:33 SeaMonkey WINNT 5.2 [3fb3186c8172] # 2010-10-12 13:42 SeaMonkey WINNT 5.2 [3fb3186c8172] # 2010-10-12 13:00 SeaMonkey Linux [3fb3186c8172] } Much better anyway, ftb.