[tor-bugs] #18597 [Quality Assurance and Testing]: Enhance performance timing tests for esr45

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#18597: Enhance performance timing tests for esr45
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 Reporter:  gk                              |          Owner:  boklm
     Type:  task                            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                          |      Milestone:
Component:  Quality Assurance and Testing   |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                          |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ff45-esr, TorBrowserTeam201604  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:2 boklm]:
 > > c) write a corresponding test for the User Timing API (we had #16336
 for disabling the preference).
 >
 > I updated the resource-timing test to also check that the mark() and
 measure() methods from the User Timing API cannot be used:
 > https://gitweb.torproject.org/boklm/tor-browser-bundle-
 testsuite.git/commit/?id=26d22e7cde628c1bb9eb04a0f258dc31d48194b2
 >
 > When setting dom.enable_user_timing to true, the test fails as expected.

 Could we put that in an own test, test_user-timing.py for example? It
 seems to me having separate tests covering these separate APIs makes it
 both easier to understand what is going on and to test differences in
 those APIs.

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