Removing a shadow tree stylesheet should cause an invalidation set update. On success, you will see a series of "PASS" messages, followed by "TEST COMPLETE". PASS window.internals is defined. PASS window.eventSender is defined. PASS getComputedStyle(match).backgroundColor is red PASS internals.updateStyleAndReturnAffectedElementCount() is 2 PASS getComputedStyle(match).backgroundColor is green PASS successfullyParsed is true TEST COMPLETE Hover this text ... and this should have a green background.