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Bug 1672270

Summary:	opening a URI from command line fails if there is a Firefox running in wayland mode
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	0xalen+redhat, anto.trande, gecko-bugs-nobody, jan.public, jgrulich, jhorak, john.j5live, kengert, pjasicek, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, stransky
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Description Thorsten Leemhuis 2019-02-04 12:12:08 UTC

Description of problem:
Opening a URI from command line fails if there is a Firefox running already that runs in wayland mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-65.0-2.fc29.x86_64

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open "Firefox on Wayland" and wait for it to start
2. run something like "firefox www.redhat.com" in gnome-terminal
-> results in a pop-up window saying "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."

Additional info:
Worked fine with the firefox-64.<something i don't remember>.fc29 I had before

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2019-02-04 12:21:08 UTC

Yes, we decided don't mix wayland/x11 browsers versions, you need to use firefox-wayland command on Fedora 29.

Comment 2 Thorsten Leemhuis 2019-02-04 12:53:45 UTC

(In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #1)
> Yes, we decided don't mix wayland/x11 browsers versions, you need to use
> firefox-wayland command on Fedora 29.

Well, that's not that hard for people like me, but from the "make things just work" that sucks, as now I have to change my default apps in gnome-settings depending on the firefox I'm currently running. That IMHO a really bad user experience :-/

Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2019-02-04 14:29:39 UTC

(In reply to Thorsten Leemhuis from comment #2)
> (In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #1)
> > Yes, we decided don't mix wayland/x11 browsers versions, you need to use
> > firefox-wayland command on Fedora 29.
> 
> Well, that's not that hard for people like me, but from the "make things
> just work" that sucks, as now I have to change my default apps in
> gnome-settings depending on the firefox I'm currently running. That IMHO a
> really bad user experience :-/

That's because Firefox Wayland is a tech preview on F28/29 and we don't encourage regular users to use it. Fedora 30 has simple "firefox" with wayland enabled by default as we aim to enable it for all users there.