Testing Mozilla Linux/Runtime Requirements

Project Name

Testing Mozilla Linux/Runtime Requirements

Project Description

Mozilla is in the process of finalizing a set of Linux library and runtime requirements for distributions wanting to ship Mozilla software. This project will test various bugs against two different sets of runtime setups, hoping to expose any issues with the new requirements.

Project Leader(s)

• Kiranjeet Kaur Beniwal (Kiran)

Project Contributor(s)

• Chris Tyler
• David Humphrey

Project Details

Testing of the current (RHEL5) and proposed runtime setups will be done using VMs on Hera. The initial list of bugs for testing against is available here.

All bugs will be tested on the two reference runtimes, and information about each bug's behaviour will be recorded (e.g., fixed/improved/changed with the new ref platform). Bugs that are resolved by the new reference VM will be marked WORKSFORME, as requested by Mike Connor. The rest of the bugs will have a comment added, indicating that the bug is still present on modern platforms.

For testing purposes, the most recent alpha will be used, currently alpha 5.

Two Reference Runtimes

1.CentOS 5

2.Fedora 3

List of Bugs(CentOS 5)

Bug ID: Status DETAIL

190778 WORKFORME [gtk2] Assumes font sizes are integers, they are not

205430 WORKFORME Consider caching the result of searches for missing glyphs

After clicking the following URL the browser did not frozen while memory usage soars

Test 243146 WORKFORME Very slow painting of background 8-bit-alpha png

244506 WORKFORME scrolling sluggish on page with fixed background under X11

261447 NEEDINFO when rendering arabic with pango and justification, glyphs are all wrong

No steps to reproduce are given.Test on some arabic websites but glyphs look fine there.Maybe this bug has been fixed.

Project News

• June 13, 2007 - Created project page, got permissions for use of Linux14 on hera.