[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
** Changed in: firefox Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
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[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 87.0+build3-0ubuntu4 --- firefox (87.0+build3-0ubuntu4) hirsute; urgency=medium * Ensure that opening links from XWayland apps still works (LP: #1921931) -- Olivier Tilloy Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:59:44 +0200 ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
ok that makes sense, I think opening links from slack (electron/x11) was likely the culprit that "poisoned" the running firefox instance -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/wayland-x11-how-to-run- firefox-in-mixed-environment/ is useful to understand the problem. As suggested there, exporting MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE=1 when running in a wayland session works around the problem. I can observe the problem in a wayland session if I launch e.g. vlc with GDK_BACKEND=x11 and then click a link in the app (e.g. in the about dialog). With MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE set, the problem is gone. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Olivier Tilloy (osomon) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
Launchpad has imported 19 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508803. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2018-11-20T20:52:45+00:00 Mcooper-6 wrote: If I run Nightly with the command "./nightly/firefox-bin", and then click a link in an external application, the link opens correctly in the running instance of Firefox. If I run Nightly with Wayland enabled with the command "env GDK_BACKEND=wayland ./nightly/firefox-bin", then clicking a link in an external application shows me the profile selection window, as if I had just launched Firefox. I'm running Nightly build 20181120100045. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/comments/0 On 2018-11-28T15:28:00+00:00 Johnp-j wrote: Fwiw, in my case (clicking on a link in Thunderbird) it even ran the updater (because there was a staged Nightly update in my running session) and only afterwards complained that the browser is already running. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/comments/1 On 2018-11-28T17:35:13+00:00 5-greg wrote: You can run the second firefox command (i.e. your other apps that will launch links in Firefox) with GDK_BACKEND=wayland as well. But yeah, this should be fixed, Firefox really should try looking for an existing instance via D-Bus first even without explicit GDK_BACKEND. Or at least try D-Bus after not finding anything via X11. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/comments/2 On 2018-12-05T07:30:40+00:00 Stransky wrote: The builds running under Wayland and X11 are separated - it allows you to use X11 firefox for regular work and Wayland version for debug/testing. Fedora ships firefox-wayland package which provides desktop file and launcher for Firefox on Wayland which can be registered as a default launcher for html links and so on. I don't think we should enable mixing X11/DBus remote - we had that on Fedora before and it brings a lot of confusions as it depends on which version (X11/Wayland) is recently running. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/comments/3 On 2018-12-05T07:32:59+00:00 Stransky wrote: Anyway, the launchers can be extracted from this rpm file: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/firefox/63.0.3/3.fc28/x86_64/firefox-wayland-63.0.3-3.fc28.x86_64.rpm Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/comments/4 On 2018-12-06T22:51:26+00:00 Peter Bašista wrote: (In reply to Martin Stránský [:stransky] from comment #3) > I don't think we should enable mixing X11/DBus remote I agree. > launcher for Firefox on Wayland which can be registered as a default launcher > for html links Yes, a custom launcher with GDK_BACKEND=wayland override can be created in ~/.local/share/applications/ and registered using "xdg-settings set default-web-browser custom-launcher.desktop". It would cause the other desktop applications to open the links using the correct version of Firefox. However, even after creating such a launcher and registering it, Firefox would _not_ detect that it is in fact the default browser and it would offer the user to set it as the default browser. If the user agrees, Firefox would create a new launcher with a name similar to "userapp- Nightly-8YETTZ.desktop" and register it. That launcher, however, would use the Firefox executable _directly_, i.e. without the GDK_BACKEND=wayland override. That would result in launching the non-Wayland version of Firefox by other desktop applications by default, which would then cause the behavior mentioned in this issue. I think that one of the ways to resolve this would be to update the process of setting the default browser, so that the created launcher would contain the GDK_BACKEND=wayland override if the Firefox process that creates it also runs on Wayland. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/comments/5 On 2019-02-19T11:09:03+00:00 Stransky wrote: GDK_BACKEND is no longer needed, use MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND instead (Bug 1522780). Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/comments/6 On 2019-02-19T11:09:40+00:00 Stransky
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
Thanks Olivier. That bug report looks related but seems more like it never works, vs/ works for a little while and then stops working? But adding the MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE flag that it mentions seems to fix the issue when running with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND in limited testing so far. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
This appears to be a known upstream bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508803 ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1508803 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508803 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508803 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
Yes, commenting out the MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND line appears to fix the issue. With MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, initial link requests work, but after a short while start getting the firefox is running but not responding dialog. Without it, link requests work even after a while. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1921931] Re: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
Thanks for the report Joe. If I understand correctly, you're saying that it looks like a very recent regression, introduced by https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/firefox.hirsute/revision/1476 ? If so, could you hand-edit /usr/bin/firefox to comment out the line that exports MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND, and after restarting firefox confirm whether the issue is gone? ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921931 Title: Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1921931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
