Opening links results in "Firefox is already running, but is not responding"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Olivier Tilloy |
Bug Description
Since the latest package release enabling wayland, I often get the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To use Firefox, you must first close the existing Firefox process, restart your device, or use a different profile." message when trying to open links from other applications (eg geary, slack) instead of having the link open in the existing firefox window.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: firefox 87.0+build3-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.10.0-14-generic x86_64
AddonCompatChec
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu61
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
BuildID: 20210318103112
CasperMD5CheckR
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 30 09:14:13 2021
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExt
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-17 (591 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190305.1)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.4.1 dev wlp2s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev docker0 scope link metric 1000 linkdown
172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.17.0.1 linkdown
192.168.4.0/22 dev wlp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.4.89 metric 600
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
MostRecentCrashID: bp-76c5697a-
PrefErrors: Unexpected character ',' before close parenthesis @ /usr/lib/
PrefSources:
/usr/lib/
prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: firefox
SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-76c5697a-
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-02-23 (34 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/15/2020
dmi.bios.release: 1.13
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.13.0
dmi.board.name: 0N338G
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 31
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.family: XPS
dmi.product.name: XPS 15 9575
dmi.product.sku: 080D
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
Related branches
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
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.