#1000207 firefox: problems opening urls on gnome wayland desktop

Package:
firefox
Source:
firefox
Description:
Mozilla Firefox web browser
Submitter:
Diane Trout
Date:
2021-11-19 19:00:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1000207#5
Date:
2021-11-19 18:53:55 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

On a gnome desktop (gnome-shell 41.1-1) the using the firefox command to try
and open a new URL isn't working. After a number of seconds I get the you tried
to launch firefox again error. "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."

I wondered if it was related to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508803 "[Wayland] Links in
external applications don't open in the existing browser". and tried setting
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND and MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE to different combinations of 1, 0, and
blank.

I tried using d-feet to view the org.mozilla.firefox.ZGVmYXVsda__ dbus
interface and I get an error message g-io-error-quark: Timeout was reached
(24).

I wonder if the problem responding is the cause of it not being able to
communicate.

Thanks,
Diane Trout