diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/tests/autocomplete/head_autocomplete.js b/toolkit/components/places/tests/autocomplete/head_autocomplete.js
index f26856cd0d3..6af0c33b458 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/tests/autocomplete/head_autocomplete.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/tests/autocomplete/head_autocomplete.js
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ function ensure_results(aSearch, aExpected)
       let value = controller.getValueAt(i);
       let comment = controller.getCommentAt(i);
 
-      print("Looking for an expected result of " + value + ", " + comment + "...");
+      print("Looking for " + value + ", " + comment + " in expected results...");
       let j;
       for (j = 0; j < aExpected.length; j++) {
         // Skip processed expected results
@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ try {
                getService(Ci.nsITaggingService);
   var iosvc = Cc["@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"].
               getService(Ci.nsIIOService);
+  var prefs = Cc["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"].
+              getService(Ci.nsIPrefBranch);
 } catch(ex) {
   do_throw("Could not get services\n");
 }