I solved the local file problem. It was indeed just a matter of the tests running as root in cpan cmd line while my firefox was running as non-root. I gave my non-root user access to the files and now the tests are running much better.

Here are the only failures: 

t/50-app-new.t .................... 6/8 
#   Failed test 'The name is "Standard"'
#   at t/50-app-new.t line 46.
#          got: 'Default'
#     expected: 'Standard'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 8.
t/50-app-new.t .................... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 25
+6, 0x100)
Failed 1/8 subtests 

t/50-mech-bufsize.t ............... 4/8

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It hangs on the last one at 4/8. I waited 15 mins, but it's hung. The hang seems very similar to the hangs my program is having. I added some debugs to that test and tried again. It's hanging forever on the mech->content_as_png call. Commenting out that call I can get the tests to continue. 

t/70-urlbar.t ..................... 1/2 
#   Failed test 'We changed the location once'
#   at t/70-urlbar.t line 48.
#          got: '0'
#     expected: '1'
Use of uninitialized value $this in pattern match (m//) at t/70-urlbar
+.t line 49, <DATA> line 1.

#   Failed test '... to that other page'
#   at t/70-urlbar.t line 49.
#                   undef
#     doesn't match '(?-xism:/70-urlbar-2.html$)'
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 2.
t/70-urlbar.t ..................... Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 51
+2, 0x200)
Failed 2/2 subtests

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Also, I get a lot (dozen+) of these warnings: 

Subroutine MozRepl::__load_plugins redefined at /usr/lib/perl5/site_pe
+rl/5.10.0/Module/Pluggable/Fast.pm line 104, <DATA> line 1.

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And I had to turn off my proxy settings ("direct connection") to make a few tests pass (my squid seems to return things other than what the tests expect).

In reply to Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox delayed returns / slow by tcordes
in thread WWW::Mechanize::Firefox delayed returns / slow by tcordes

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