Test suite on Trixie: long delays for non-English Tor Browser and warning about second Unsafe Browser instance

anonym
2025-09-02T11:14:10Z

This is about two (seemingly) test suite-only regressions in Trixie where things take a lot longer than in Bookworm:

* https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/2215#note_262686: the warning shown when attempting to sta...

This is about two (seemingly) test suite-only regressions in Trixie where things take a lot longer than in Bookworm:

!2215 (comment 262686): the warning shown when attempting to start a second instance of the Unsafe Browser takes almost 30 seconds to show (and often also triggers GNOME's "Application not responding" for a short while)

!2215 (comment 262690): non-English locale Tor Browser takes around 30 seconds to start, more than 3 times as long as in English locale

These might be separate issues, but for now we track them as one based on an initial hypothesis that the problem is how we start these applications in the test suite using launch_app(), and that that has regressed in Trixie for some reason.

Prioritization: this mostly matters because these problems have forced us to increase timeouts a lot in the test suite, which can potentially masquerade future regressions that would not be test suite-only.