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Bug 1672270 - opening a URI from command line fails if there is a Firefox running in wayland mode
Summary: opening a URI from command line fails if there is a Firefox running in waylan...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ffwayland
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-02-04 12:12 UTC by Thorsten Leemhuis
Modified: 2019-02-28 10:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-02-28 10:32:58 UTC
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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.


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