Recently I noticed xdg-open started failing opening links in Firefox. Giving me the following error:
Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
It happened while I had Firefox running and responding to everything else. I’m running the latest stable Firefox (74 as I’m writing this) on Wayland. Wayland brings a lot of good things, but also a lot of interoperability problems, so I suspected it had something to do with it. Thanks to Martin Stransky I found out that the solution is to set the MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE environment variable prior to launching Firefox. If you are using a desktop file to launch Firefox, you can set the variable in the Exec line like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Firefox
Exec=env MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE=1 MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /home/guyru/.local/firefox/firefox %u
X-MultipleArgs=false
Icon=firefox-esr
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Terminal=false
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
You will need to restart Firefox before the fix will take affect.
Thanks! That was really helpful.
THank you. This was very helpful. I don’t understand why in 2021 applications don’t initialize such variables themselves