Thorned_Rose
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Thorned_Rose

@Thorned_Rose@kbin.social

Firefox not taking focus when opening links from (EDIT) some apps but not others on Wayland (KDE)

Dunno if this is Wayland, Thunderbird, Firefox or KDE causing this issue but in the past few days I've been giving Wayland a go. Been much snappier and no issues but for Firefox not taking focus when I open web links in Thunderbird....

Thorned_Rose,
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I'm not sure this is specifically a KDE/Plasma 5 issue though. Firefox correctly gets focus on X. But it also correctly gets focus on Wayland when opening URLs in Firefox from apps that aren't Thunderbird.
So far that I've found it's only a combination of Thunderbird, Firefox and Wayland.

Thorned_Rose,
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It's in my OP - Thunderbird 115.6.1 :)

Thorned_Rose,
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The task manager icon does indeed correctly turn orange.

Default web browser is set properly. I tried setting it to Chromium and every single app I tested with Chromium, correctly opened and took focus with Chromium. Switched back to Firefox and once again it's not always taking focus. Only this time, when I tested Steam, Firefox didn't take focus from Steam even though it did before.

This definitely seems to be an issue with Firefox + Wayland given that Chromium had no issues opening up all the links from different apps I tried.

At least the issue is now whittled down a bit more. Thanks for your help!

Thorned_Rose,
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I thought that too but if you see my edits above, I tried several different app combos, and it's not consistent. I tried setting Chromium as my default browser (it opened all links and took focus correctly every time) and when I switched Firefox back to the default browser, Firefox didn't take focus from Steam even though it did originally ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ

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