Re: firefox after update

[Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 at 21:02, Roger Wells via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

On 3/28/25 2:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/28/2025 12:15 PM, Roger Wells via users wrote:

>> Running from command line: firefox
>> env: ‘firefox-wayland’: No such file or directory
>> Run from desktop icon: icon swirls for about 15 seconds then disappears.
>
> First, run
>
> whereis firefox-wayland

This may well be the problem.
There used to be:
locate firefox-wayland
/usr/bin/firefox-wayland

sudo updatedb
locate firefox-wayland

(nothing)

I don't think you *need* firefox-wayland to run FF under Wayland.  Most internet references to firefox-wayland are back around Fedora 30-ish era. I'd guess that it's a leftover deprecated artefact from X -> Wayland?

I certainly don't have a file or package by that name, there's nothing in the FF RPM. (rpm -ql firefox)

Check to see if you have a customised launcher for firefox:

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ find ~ -name "*.desktop" 2> /dev/null | grep firef

If you do, look at the Exec statements in that file. If not, check the Exec statements in the default launcher?

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ rpm -ql firefox | grep desktop\$
/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ grep -C1 Exec /usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
Comment[sv]=Surfa på webben
Exec=firefox %u
Icon=firefox
--
Name[zh_TW]=開新視窗
Exec=firefox --new-window %u

--
Name[zh_TW]=新增隱私視窗
Exec=firefox --private-window %u

--
Name[fr]=Ouvrir le gestionnaire de profils
Exec=firefox --ProfileManager

The default firefox 'binary' in /usr/bin is also just a shell script, so maybe check to see if you have an older/custom/modified copy of that, or any .rpmnew files.

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox

wmcdonald@fedora:~$ sudo find /usr/ -name '*.rpmnew'

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