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rphii
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 Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:26 pm Post subject: Can't open Firefox URLs if it is already running |
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I do have Firefox open and I now want to open a new tab with a URL (starting jupyter, or clicking a link on a pdf, etc).
After waiting for a few seconds I get the following white window with only an "OK" button and a message saying:
"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."
Alongside the following terminal information.
| Code: | $ firefox 'https://forums.gentoo.org'
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: vaapitest: ERROR (t=5.67108) [GFX1-]: vaapitest: ERROR
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: vaapitest: ERROR (t=5.67108) |[1][GFX1-]: vaapitest: VA-API test failed: libva-drm.so.2 is missing.
(t=5.67113) [GFX1-]: vaapitest: VA-API test failed: libva-drm.so.2 is missing.
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory.
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory.
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory.
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory.
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.sys.mjs, line 60: Error: Can't find profile directory. |
As I said, I know I have firefox running, but I don't really want to close it just to open another URL.
I have this problem on two machines, both under wayland.
When launching hyprland I set those two variables:
| Code: | export MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE=1
export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 |
Clearly something is wrong with my "profile directory" or "libva-drm.so.2"... but I don't really know how to fix it, so if anyone can help me, it is highly appreciated. |
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kgdrenefort
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Joined: 19 Sep 2023
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| Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
maybe it's related to your Desktop Environment ?
I guess all of them, while clicking on a file type, or a website link, will use pre-configured or user-configured value to:
1/ Open the proper tool
2/ Open the file(s) with it
Here it seems it does not use the proper way to do that.
I had that on Debian when I was using my home-script to download and install the last firefox release into /opt, then linked it as a normal binary install via dpkg/apt. Sometime I forgot to properly separate them and it was (debian + KDE) trying to run it with another release, and since Firefox really doesn't like that, I had the same errors as you.
Also, while you have this message, please paste process running:
Don't grep firefox, just in case, could maybe contains something useful. Or not.
Regards,
GASPARD DE RENEFORT Kévin
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flexibeast
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Joined: 04 Apr 2022
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Location: Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | Can't find profile directory. |
Firefox is trying to start via a particular user profile, but it can't find that profile.
By default, profiles are stored under ~/.mozilla/firefox/, with directory names like `abc123de.default`.
If you start Firefox from the command line with the `-P` option, you'll get a dialog box listing the available user profiles (and asking you to select one).
If you provide a profile name to the `-P` option (e.g. "-P default"), Firefox will try to start with that profile. If there's already an instance running with that profile, you can use the existing instance by passing the option "--no-remote".
Finally, Firefox makes use of the D-Bus session bus, and lack of a session bus (as distinct from the system bus provided by the `dbus` service provided by OpenRC or systemd), or the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable not being set appropriately, can cause issues for Firefox. |
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