Re: F44 Wayland vs Firefox

Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2026-08-23 at 19:35 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan via users wrote:
> Firefox doesn't start a session:
> 
> > From a terminal:
>  $ firefox
> fails to start a screen session, though it does start a lot of
> processes
>    $ pgrep -f firefox | xargs ps
>       PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>     11194 pts/1    Sl+    0:11 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox
>     11214 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/crashhelper 11194 9
> /tmp/
>    11 20260818142129
>     11289 pts/1    S+     0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    ipcHandle 0 -signalPipe 1 -initialChannelId {bb872829-d3ac-4853-
> a5f9-
>    533e57
>     11306 pts/1    Sl+    0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    parentBuildID 20260818142129 -prefsHandle 0:40374 -prefMapHandle
>    1:295297 -
>     11333 pts/1    Sl+    0:04 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:40594 -prefMapHandle 1:295297 -
> jsInitHandle
>    2:1
>     11342 pts/1    Sl+    0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    parentBuildID 20260818142129 -prefsHandle 0:40594 -prefMapHandle
>    1:295297 -
>     11501 pts/1    Sl+    0:02 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:40873 -prefMapHandle 1:295297 -
> jsInitHandle
>    2:1
>     11597 pts/1    Sl+    0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    parentBuildID 20260818142129 -sandboxingKind 0 -prefsHandle
> 0:57449 -
>    prefMa
>     12010 pts/1    Sl+    0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:51654 -prefMapHandle 1:295297 -
> jsInitHandle
>    2:1
>     12079 pts/1    Sl+    0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:51654 -prefMapHandle 1:295297 -
> jsInitHandle
>    2:1
>     12116 pts/1    Sl+    0:00 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox -
> contentproc -
>    isForBrowser -prefsHandle 0:51654 -prefMapHandle 1:295297 -
> jsInitHandle
>    2:1
> But:
>  MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 firefox
> works as expected.
> 
> Evidently wayland and firefox don't like each other. Has anyone else
> seen this? I'd like to get some further responses before filing a
> formal
> bug report.

Nope. I use Firefox on Wayland (under KDE, AMD GPU) with no issues.

poc
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