Re: EXTERNAL: firefox-wayland and URLs in other programs
On 4/2/19 11:40 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 02/04/2019 16:27, Wells, Roger K. wrote:
> On 4/2/19 11:07 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> To help testing firefox on wayland I'm running it as my day to day
>> browser
>> now, but when I click links (specifically in thunderbird) I get a
>> dialog
>> saying "firefox is running but not responding". I believe this is
>> caused
>> by thunderbird spawning /usr/bin/firefox to open the link instead of
>> firefox-wayland.
>>
>> Any ideas how to fix this? I guess I could try to set
>> MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
>> in my environment everywhere, but AFAIK a Wayland gnome-shell will not
>> parse /etc/profile or any of the other scripts, so setting an env
>> variable
>> so that it works for apps launched from gnome-shell is tricky...
>
> FWIW, I've been running Firefox on Wayland ever since Wayland was
> available on fedora.
> I have not noticed anything unexpected with regard to clicking on links
> from anywhere, mostly ones in Thunderbird
I certainly have - it's the main reason I always give up after
a short period of trying to test it.
Tom
One point, I just checked what's running firefox-wise when I clicked a
link contained in this thread: https://compton.nu/
a bit tedious:
ps aux | grep firefox
<pre>roger 29988 2.9 3.3 2200264 266560 tty2 Sl+ 11:45 0:11
//usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font> http://compton.nu/
roger 30093 0.6 1.9 1602612 158220 tty2 Sl+ 11:45 0:02
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font> -contentproc -childID
1
-isForBrowser -prefsLen 1 -prefMapSize 178056 -parentBuildID
20190328155910 -greomni /usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/omni.ja -appomni
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/browser/omni.ja
-appdir
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/browser 29988 tab
roger 30146 0.4 1.2 1556120 99376 tty2 Sl+ 11:45 0:01
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font> -contentproc -childID
2
-isForBrowser -prefsLen 5430 -prefMapSize 178056 -parentBuildID
20190328155910 -greomni /usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/omni.ja -appomni
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/browser/omni.ja
-appdir
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/browser 29988 tab
roger 30416 0.2 0.9 1528688 72936 tty2 Sl+ 11:50 0:00
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font> -contentproc -childID
5
-isForBrowser -prefsLen 6501 -prefMapSize 178056 -parentBuildID
20190328155910 -greomni /usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/omni.ja -appomni
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/browser/omni.ja
-appdir
/usr/lib64/<font
color="#EF2929"><b>firefox</b></font>/browser 29988 tab
</pre>
when I close the link and firefox terminates the same "ps aux | grep
firefox" yields nothing (except the grep)
also
there is no file named "firefox-wayland" on this machine.
the only wayland related firefox file that I have found is a shared
library: /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozwayland.so
HTH
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