No screen sharing on Firefox with Wayland

Bug #1915802 reported by Mossroy
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Bug Description

On Ubuntu 20.04.2 or 20.10, if I switch to a Wayland session, and open Firefox (currently 85.0.1) on a site using some screen sharing, Firefox does not list the available windows but only a line "Use operating system settings".
After choosing this only option, nothing happens and my screen is not shared.

When using the default Xorg session, Firefox lists the available windows and allows to share them.

Steps to reproduce :
- open a Wayland session
- open Firefox on https://meet.jit.si/
- start a conference and join it
- try to share your screen (icon of a screen at the bottom left)

Expected behavior : Firefox should ask me which window to share (like on Xorg)

Actual behavior : Firefox does not list any window, but only a "Use operating system settings" line, and selecting it does nothing

NB : installing and starting pipewire (as suggested in http://jgrulich.cz/2018/07/04/how-to-enable-and-use-screen-sharing-on-wayland/) does not help
NB2 : the behavior is the same on other sites, like Google Meet

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Mossroy (mossroy) wrote :
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Mossroy (mossroy) wrote :

I tested the same on Chromium 88 (on Ubuntu 20.10) : it does not allow to choose a window other than the one of Chromium (or one of its tabs), but it works in this case.
It allows to share the entire screen, but it broadcasts a black screen instead of its actual content

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Paul White (paulw2u)
affects: ubuntu → firefox (Ubuntu)
tags: added: focal groovy
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

The firefox side of things should be covered, but it's pending a mutter update in hirsute (bug #1730612).
It is highly unlikely that this will be backported to focal or groovy though.

I'm marking this bug as a duplicate of bug #1730612, if it still doesn't work after the mutter fix lands in hirsute, please de-duplicate. Thanks!

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