[QA] help with a bug hunt? VisualEditor in Chrome

[Chris McMahon]

Hello QAers,

We have found a few cases of what seem to be race conditions when using
VisualEditor in Chrome, and it would be great if you could help us find
some more.

Examples:
* 'not logged in' warning for logged-in user:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55756
* Categories links appear when they should not:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55759

There is another case that I believe happens in Chrome 29 but not Chrome
30, where the "Welcome..." message first appears, then disappears upon
being dismissed[*], then reappears, then disappears again:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54854

Another case I have not reproduced is that after logging in the user sees
only an 'Edit' tab where you should see one 'Edit source' tab and another
'Edit/beta' tab.

Screen shots of any issues you find would be awesome.

If you'd like to help us look for similar issues, you should have

* Chrome 29 or 30 (please specify if you make a report)
* an account on http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org with VisualEditor
enabled in Preferences
* the slower your connection, the more likely to find a race condition I
think. for more technical people, you might like to explore using a proxy
with a throttle like http://www.charlesproxy.com/

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_Law

Thanks for your help!

[*] The 'Welcome to...' overlay only appears when your browser does not
have the cookie called 've-beta-welcome-dialog'.  In order to delete this
cookie in Chrome and thus have the message appear upon clicking
'Edit/beta', do this:

* enter chrome://settings in the address bar, or click Settings/Preferences
(the 3 bars to right of address bar)
* click Show advanced settings...
* under Privacy, click 'Content settings'
* under Cookies, click 'All cookies and site data...'
* search for 'beta'
* under en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org click 've-beta-welcome-dialog'
* click 'Remove'
* click 'Done'
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