Bug 1583536 - [wayland] firefox not responding to requests from other apps
Summary: [wayland] firefox not responding to requests from other apps
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-29 08:13 UTC by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Modified: 2018-05-30 10:23 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-05-30 10:23:08 UTC
Type: Bug
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dialog window (461.86 KB, image/png)
2018-05-29 08:14 UTC, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
no flags Details

Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-05-29 08:13:03 UTC
Description of problem:
When I do a ctrl-click in gnome-terminal to open a link, after a short delay I get the message "Firefox is not responding...". 
I first noticed that ctrl-click in terminal and other applications does not work.

I get the same result when I click on the "firefox" (non-wayland version) in gnome-shell.

I see that "firefox-wayland https://url" work fine (a new tab pops up), but "firefox https://url" gives the same error as above. So it seems that the apps are trying to communicate with the non-wayland version.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-60.0.1-3.fc28.x86_64

How reproducible:
100% in this run of firefox. I haven't restarted it yet.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox using the "Firefox on Wayland" icon in gnome
2. ctrl-click on an url in gnome-terminal

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-05-29 08:14:15 UTC
Created attachment 1445225 [details]
dialog window

Comment 2 Rastus Vernon 2018-05-29 23:53:23 UTC
Changing your default web browser to Firefox on Wayland (in the Settings application if you are using GNOME) fixes this, so I would not consider it a bug.

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2018-05-30 05:50:05 UTC
Even though it can be worked around, it's an annoying usability issue. For the user it's like "I started the browser with different options and some related functionality broke".

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2018-05-30 10:23:08 UTC
Moving upstream - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1465371


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