It's best to disable all plugins before doing these tests. The tests in this directory are pretty ad-hoc. The tests in the css/ subdirectory are specific to linking in stylesheets. The tests in the sniffing/ subdirectory were written to test how UAs handled edge cases such as mis-labelled binary files. NOTE: The tests in this directory generally assume that there should be no sniffing at all going on. However, HTML5 introduces a limited set of sniffing behaviours to the rules. These tests will need to be updated to match that spec.