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→Mochitest (plain): Add more details on loadChromeScript
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** Some services are only available in the parent process (form history, window watcher, etc). | ** Some services are only available in the parent process (form history, window watcher, etc). | ||
** <code>SpecialPowers.loadChromeScript</code> allows you to have a "worker" in the parent process with which to communicate. | ** <code>SpecialPowers.loadChromeScript</code> allows you to have a "worker" in the parent process with which to communicate. | ||
*** One nice thing for porting synchronous tests is that the chrome script is run synchronously. | |||
*** After {{bug|1251139}}, you can pass a function to run in the parent instead of a URL (since data URIs don't work with loadChromeScript). | |||
*** {{bug|1153128}} is adding sendSyncMessage to the return value of loadChromeScript. Currently its sendAsyncMessage method is sync even though it's labelled as Async ({{bug|1251141}}) | |||
** <code>SpecialPowers.importInMainProcess("resource://gre/modules/SomeService.jsm")</code> will call Cu.import in the main process with the given URI, which is useful when your test needs to start some main process service. | ** <code>SpecialPowers.importInMainProcess("resource://gre/modules/SomeService.jsm")</code> will call Cu.import in the main process with the given URI, which is useful when your test needs to start some main process service. | ||