firefox after update

[Roger Wells]

Hi,
Updated F41 via "software" icon on desktop today, 28Mar2025, which I do 
each week at this time
Now firefox doesn't launch.
Running from command line: firefox
env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory
Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears.

what happened?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM Roger Wells via users
 wrote:
> Updated F41 via "software" icon on desktop today, 28Mar2025, which I do
> each week at this time
> Now firefox doesn't launch.
> Running from command line: firefox
> env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory
> Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears.
>
> what happened?

That is kind of weird. My F41 is fully patched, and Firefox is working fine.

Are you running Wayland?

$ loginctl show-session $(loginctl | grep $(whoami) | awk '{print $1}') -p Type
Type=wayland
$

However, I don't have a firefox-wayland:

$ sudo find / -name firefox-wayland
find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied
$

Just a plain Firefox:

$ ps -A | grep firefox
   3154 ?        08:24:22 firefox
$

Maybe the shortcut is a bit off:

$ cat ~/Desktop/firefox.desktop
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Firefox Web Browser
...
Comment=Browse the World Wide Web
...
GenericName=Web Browser
...
Keywords=Internet;WWW;Browser;Web;Explorer
...
Exec=firefox %u
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=firefox
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;

[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=Open a New Window
...
Exec=firefox -new-window

[Desktop Action new-private-window]
Name=Open a New Private Window
...
Exec=firefox -private-window

Jeff

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/28/2025 12:15 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:
> Hi,
> Updated F41 via "software" icon on desktop today, 28Mar2025, which I do 
> each week at this time
> Now firefox doesn't launch.
> Running from command line: firefox
> env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory
> Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears.

First, run

whereis firefox-wayland

to see if you have more than one executable installed.  If so, run

which firefox-wayland

to find out which one you're running.  You can also, of course, just 
edit the desktop launcher to see which one you're trying to run, but 
running the two commands above should give you more information to work 
with.

[Roger Wells]

Thanks for the reply.

On 3/28/25 2:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/28/2025 12:15 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Updated F41 via "software" icon on desktop today, 28Mar2025, which I 
> > do each week at this time
> > Now firefox doesn't launch.
> > Running from command line: firefox
> > env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory
> > Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears.
>
> First, run
>
> whereis firefox-wayland

This may well be the problem.
There used to be:
locate firefox-wayland
/usr/bin/firefox-wayland

sudo updatedb
locate firefox-wayland

(nothing)
So the update did away with it for some reason.
Thanks again

but it is not there anymore.
> to see if you have more than one executable installed.  If so, run
>
> which firefox-wayland
>
> to find out which one you're running.  You can also, of course, just 
> edit the desktop launcher to see which one you're trying to run, but 
> running the two commands above should give you more information to 
> work with.

[Will McDonald]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 at 21:02, Roger Wells via users <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> On 3/28/25 2:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 03/28/2025 12:15 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:
> > Running from command line: firefox
> > > env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory
> > > Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears.
> >
> > First, run
> >
> > whereis firefox-wayland
>
> This may well be the problem.
> There used to be:
> locate firefox-wayland
> /usr/bin/firefox-wayland
>
> sudo updatedb
> locate firefox-wayland
>
> (nothing)

I don't think you *need* firefox-wayland to run FF under Wayland.  Most
internet references to firefox-wayland are back around Fedora 30-ish era.
I'd guess that it's a leftover deprecated artefact from X -> Wayland?

I certainly don't have a file or package by that name, there's nothing in
the FF RPM. (rpm -ql firefox)

Check to see if you have a customised launcher for firefox:

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ find ~ -name "*.desktop" 2> /dev/null | grep firef

If you do, look at the Exec statements in that file. If not, check the Exec
statements in the default launcher?

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ rpm -ql firefox | grep desktop$
/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ grep -C1 Exec
/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
Comment[sv]=Surfa på webben
Exec=firefox %u
Icon=firefox
--
Name[zh_TW]=開新視窗
Exec=firefox --new-window %u

--
Name[zh_TW]=新增隱私視窗
Exec=firefox --private-window %u

--
Name[fr]=Ouvrir le gestionnaire de profils
Exec=firefox --ProfileManager

The default firefox 'binary' in /usr/bin is also just a shell script, so
maybe check to see if you have an older/custom/modified copy of that, or
any .rpmnew files.

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ sudo find /usr/ -name '*.rpmnew'

[Sergio Belkin]

El vie, 28 mar 2025 a las 18:27, Will McDonald ()
escribió:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 at 21:02, Roger Wells via users <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > On 3/28/25 2:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > > On 03/28/2025 12:15 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:
> > > Running from command line: firefox
> > > > env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory
> > > > Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then
> >
> > disappears.
> > > First, run
> > >
> > > whereis firefox-wayland
> >
> > This may well be the problem.
> > There used to be:
> > locate firefox-wayland
> > /usr/bin/firefox-wayland
> >
> > sudo updatedb
> > locate firefox-wayland
> >
> > (nothing)
>
> I don't think you *need* firefox-wayland to run FF under Wayland.  Most
> internet references to firefox-wayland are back around Fedora 30-ish era.
> I'd guess that it's a leftover deprecated artefact from X -> Wayland?
>
> I certainly don't have a file or package by that name, there's nothing in
> the FF RPM. (rpm -ql firefox)
>
> Check to see if you have a customised launcher for firefox:
>
> wmcdonald@fedora:~$ find ~ -name "*.desktop" 2> /dev/null | grep firef
>
> If you do, look at the Exec statements in that file. If not, check the
> Exec statements in the default launcher?
>
> wmcdonald@fedora:~$ rpm -ql firefox | grep desktop$
> /usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
>
> wmcdonald@fedora:~$ grep -C1 Exec
> /usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
> Comment[sv]=Surfa på webben
> Exec=firefox %u
> Icon=firefox
> --
> Name[zh_TW]=開新視窗
> Exec=firefox --new-window %u
>
> --
> Name[zh_TW]=新增隱私視窗
> Exec=firefox --private-window %u
>
> --
> Name[fr]=Ouvrir le gestionnaire de profils
> Exec=firefox --ProfileManager
>
> The default firefox 'binary' in /usr/bin is also just a shell script, so
> maybe check to see if you have an older/custom/modified copy of that, or
> any .rpmnew files.
>
> wmcdonald@fedora:~$ which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
>
> wmcdonald@fedora:~$ sudo find /usr/ -name '*.rpmnew'
>
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I've stumbled upon  the same thing. What I found it's that firefox replaced
firefox-wayland.
repoquery --whatobsoletes firefox-wayland
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
firefox-0:131.0.2-1.fc41.x86_64
firefox-0:137.0-2.fc41.x86_64

It's a bit strange, because the most recent that I found in changelog is:
* mar ene 30 2024 Martin Stransky - 122.0-3
- Added version to obsolete firefox-wayland/x11

And since then, I've run 'dnf update' a few times :-)

HTH