Firefox issues on GNOME

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Hi,

I have installed Manjaro two weeks ago and I didn’t have any issues with it except for Firefox. For some odd reason, after alt tabbing out and in to the browser the behavior completely breaks. It is random how often I have to alt tab until this issue occurs.

The following happens:

  • The cursor doesn’t react on hover events
  • Selecting text is very choppy (it only selects when I release the button)
  • Moving the window around using Firefox’s title bar does not work
  • Resizing does not resize the instance, only the window itself

I am using the official GNOME ISO, running 21.3.6, with AMD GPU drivers. I tested it in Firefox v103 and v104.

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Hi @thaumic :wink:

Most likely it is because of wayland, switch to xorg and see if this issue is gone. (On the login screen bottom right)

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It seems like Wayland indeed is the issue, but changing to Xorg is not something I want to do. I unfortunately only have this exact issue on Manjaro for some reason. I feel like there is some wrong configuration or similiar. Is there any other possibility to why this might be happening?

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As I know Firefox uses xorg by default, so xwayland in that case. Maybe that helps: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/firefox#Wayland

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Seems like launching Firefox with the variable MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 set fixes the issues. At least in the past few hours, I haven’t noticed these issues.

I do wonder if other distributions set that variable for you by default, hence I only had the issue on Manjaro. But, I will see how it goes. For now it works fine. Thank you so much for bringing the Arch Wiki up.

Edit: They probably do, my Fedora install defaults to wayland as Window Protocol, instead of xwayland.

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