firefox test fails on non-english locale

[Daniel Kessel]

firefox autopilot test fails to input text correctly, then restarts firefox too early, then aborts abruptly

I ran

autopilot run -v -r -f xml -o ~/autopilot-firefox.xml ubuntu_autopilot_tests.firefox

The result was:
One of the tests typed "tu server docs" (should have been ubuntu server docs"
One of the other tests tried to restart firefox too early, which caused firefox to display the "another instance is already running" window.
After that, the tests suddenly aborted.

Test was run on german locale.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1112781

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

I found out that if the autopilot firefox test is run on a machine with English language, all the tests succseed.
If you run it on a machine with Italian language, for instance, the "test_google_search_suggestions" test fails.
This is because while on English language when you type: Ctrl+k, F4, g in firefox's window the google search text box gets focus and then you can start typing something in it, on Italian language, for instance, when you type: Ctrl+k, F4, g in firefox's window the google search engine choice is highlited, but you have to type in \n to focus on the search box and be able to enter something to search.
So while the test succeeds on a machine with English language if fails on one with Italian language.

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

As discussed, we will only support english locales for the moment.. Multiple languages aren't easy to account for and we're not ready to tackle that just yet