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testing/mochitest/tests/browser/browser_privileges.js@ac0c01689b40

testing/mochitest/tests/browser/browser_privileges.js

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:59:08 +0100

author

Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>

date

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:59:08 +0100

branch

TOR_BUG_9701

changeset 10

ac0c01689b40

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Implement a real Private Browsing Mode condition by changing the API/ABI;
This solves Tor bug #9701, complying with disk avoidance documented in
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#disk-avoidance.

 function test() {

   // simple test to confirm we have chrome privileges

   let hasPrivileges = true;

   // this will throw an exception if we are not running with privileges

   try {

     var prefs = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"].

                 getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefBranch);

   }

   catch (e) {

     hasPrivileges = false;

   }

   // if we get here, we must have chrome privileges

   ok(hasPrivileges, "running with chrome privileges");

 }