Re: Running StandaloneTalos test

[email protected] Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:43:36 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 8, 9:27 am, [email protected] wrote:
> On Feb 6, 3:55 pm, alice nodelman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I can also see how talos is getting confused, it's expectation is that
> > the firefox path is that to the directory that contains both the
> > executable and the libraries (ie, I grab a copy of firefox fromhttp://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/whichI then
> > untar to a local directory, then I end up with a firefox directory with
> > both firefox-bin and all the other firefox related files in it).  Having
> > your executable somewhere else from the library files meant that it was
> > unable to install the chrome/components directories.
>
> > alice.
>
> I have firefox 2.0.0.10 as installed by the Linux distro. If I were to
> grab one from the nightly build, I would take it from the 2.0.0.xx
> directory. For instance, 2008-02-01-21-firefox2.0.0.12-110n is the
> most recent one. I'm taking a look at the Tinderbox tests as well
> which requires using an optimized browser. So, I would like to ensure
> picking up the appropriate browser environment for the test setup. Let
> me know.
>
> thanks
>
> - mouli

For testing with optimized browser, I should be picking up firefox3.0
from the nightly build. Currently, the 2008-1-31-04-trunk has
firefox-3.0b3pre-en-us.linux-i686.tar.bz2 would do. Correct me if I'm
wrong.

- mouli

- mouli