1608016 - Cannot open distro installed Firefox when Nightly is already open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1609134

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[Asif Youssuff]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Login to Wayland session
2. Download Firefox tarball from mozilla
3. Launch Firefox with MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 ./firefox
4. Open GNOME Activities UI
5. type firefox
6. Hit enter

What happens:

Nothing.

Expected result:

Distro provided Firefox launches.

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and GNOME 3.34.2

Starting Firefox in X11 mode works fine - I can launch distro-Firefox via the GNOME activities UI. I can still open distro-Firefox via command line by typing firefox in a terminal.

This used to be fine -- I used to have a separate Firefox Nightly entry in the task switcher (alt tab), now it appears with the stable release colors instead of the nightly colors.

I recently got a GNOME Shell update, so if this is an upstream issue, let me know. I mention this because mozregression builds from a month ago shows the same issue.

Comment 1

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Bug 1609134 has a workaround for it.