Bug 1677062

Summary: open link in e.g. terminal does not work if 'Firefox on Wayland' is running
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Murphy <bugzilla>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: 0xalen+redhat, anto.trande, gecko-bugs-nobody, jan.public, jgrulich, jhorak, john.j5live, kengert, pjasicek, rhughes, rstrode, sandmann, stransky
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Description Chris Murphy 2019-02-13 22:14:02 UTC
Created attachment 1534591 [details]
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Description of problem:

If I launch Firefox on Wayland, and then click to open a URL in gnome-terminal, I get an error dialog from Firefox. This works as expected if Firefox is running instead.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-wayland-65.0-4.fc29.x86_64
firefox-65.0-4.fc29.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox on Wayland
2. gnome-terminal, click on a URL (can copy paste a URL into terminal and then right click on that URL and choose to open link or double click on the url)
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Actual results:

Error dialog screenshot attached

Expected results:

The URL should be opened in Firefox on Wayland, same as if Firefox had been launched.

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Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2019-02-27 09:18:15 UTC
Yes, it's because you need to specify your default application in Settings -> Details -> Default Application. "Firefox" and "Firefox on Wayland" are two different applications which can't share the same Firefox profile, so when one is running you can't launch another one.