On 2017年06月15日 08:51, Brendan Dahl wrote: > Hello All, > > > As of Firefox 55 I intend to ship headless Linux support (Firefox without a > GUI and X11 server connection). Headless mode is enabled via the --headless > command line flag for Firefox and does not affect Firefox when running in > normal mode or on Windows and macOS > > > > For those unfamiliar with the project, the main goal of headless browsing > is to make web developer workflow and testing with Firefox easier. There > are currently two ways to interact with headless Firefox by using either > SlimerJS or Marionette (WebDriver/Selenium). > > > > Testing: > > The Marionette test suite is now run in headless mode alongside the normal > mode as a tier 2 test on try. There are also some basic xpcshell tests that > use a simple headless browser. If the Marionette tests remain reliable, I > intend to bump them up to tier 1 in a few weeks [1]. > > > > In the near future, I'll also be enabling headless mode on Windows and then > will start work on macOS. We also are going to investigate some possible > performance improvements for headless mode. > > > > If you run into any issues please file a bug in the new headless component > [2]. >
This sounds interesting. On local machine, when I added a modal error dailog as a response to an error condition, which happens to be artificially created and tested in xpcshell test, the test fails because the screen or whatever is not available. Fair enough, but it was rather disappointing to see such a feature needed to be disabled due to xpcshell test failing. Does this new approach take care of such an issue in a more or less developer-friendly manner? Maybe we have a global flag to see if the program runs in headless mode? (Then I can do "if(!headless_mode) show the dialog on the screen", etc.) TIA _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
