Firefox on Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)

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The buttons on the header bar no longer work since doing the latest update. I can’t check the Firefox version because (go back to beginning of sentence).
Forward/backwards, refresh, menu, can’t close tabs etc.

[edit] Gnome, Wayland. Firefox version is 140.0

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Can you grab a tab and move it? Then try again with the buttons. This may be the same bug I experienced not long ago.

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I think I experienced this bug as well. Are you using custom CSS? Does it work if you restart firefox?

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I think it’s this bug. I only discovered the “fix” by grabbing a tab and shaking it furiously in frustration with my mouse and everything started working again. Kinda like hitting a wonky television with the heel of your shoe.

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Moving a tab fixes it, temporarily I assume.

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If you have any custom css, there would be a file located at ~/.mozilla/firefox/{your_profile}/chrome/userChrome.css. If you don’t have custom CSS, the folder/file will not exist.

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BrianAllenby’s suggestion of moving a tab fixes it, so I can’t try your suggestion of closing Firefox.
Where would I find the style sheet if any? I have one bodge - I used a setting in the search bar to stop the out-of-control tab grouping “enhancement”. If I can find details I’ll add them.

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Things I have messed about with:

  1. I switched off the tab groups by setting browser.tabs.groups.enabled to False.
  2. I tried to overcome nearly invisible scrollbars in the browser and particularly ChatGPT. This might be a consequence, it is in userContent.css (not userChrome.css):

@-moz-document domain(chat.openai.com) {
scrollbar {
#background-color: #d3d3d3; /* Scrollbar track color /
background-color: #222222; / Scrollbar track color */
}

scrollbar thumb {
    #background-color: #000000; /* Scrollbar thumb color */
    background-color: #111111; /* Scrollbar thumb color */
    border-radius: 5px;
    width: 16px; /* Width of the scrollbar thumb */
}

scrollbar thumb:hover {
    background-color: #333333; /* Hover effect for thumb */
}

}

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It’s probably not related to my issue, then, and is likely the one @brianallenby referenced.

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OK, but your suggestion was worth looking into, as my messing about could have caused problems.

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I have encountered this bug as well. So far, it is only happening on the latest version of Firefox and only on Wayland. It did not occur for me with Xorg in the VM. It could be just a coincidence; I don’t know yet.

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Actually, to go back the first post, you should be able to check the version from terminal with
firefox --version
without having to open firefox. (If it’s F42 and up to date, I thnk it will be 140.0-1).
I don’t have this issue, but I’m running with X and openbox as my window manager.

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I also don’t have this issue (F42, KDE, Wayland).

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The next day when as started up the computer it was still working without me doing anything with the tabs. However, shortly later it stopped working again for no apparent reason. Moving a tab or closing and re-opening Firefox fixes it, but that is irritating and no good for those who haven’t seen this thread. I started a thread yesterday on the Mozilla page but have had no replies and don’t expect any.
The bug has been closed unfortunately, so I might start looking at other browsers.

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The bug cited above (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1955112) is shown as Resolved against the firefox141 branch, so it should be fixed once v141 lands.

That forum is for the Common Voice project (dataset for speech recognition). For Firefox there’s a support forum but to be honest, I suspect posting there is unlikely to give you anything more useful than a reference to the bug, and you already have that.

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I chose that at random as I’d given up trying to find my way around Mozilla and hadn’t much hope of a reply

I’ll stick with Firefox and wait, thanks.
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You could also use the “nightly” version of Firefox.
In the most basic way, you download the “tar” archive and uncompress it somewhere, then you click on the “firefox” file. No real installation is needed. Nighly should create a new profile upon first start. I am sure there is the flatpak version but I am not familiar with it.

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I had a look at that yesterday, it was a tar.gz file which usually means compilation, which never works for me. However since you said

I gave it a try and it works. There was the usual problem of getting the bookmarks and passwords back, but I’ve fixed that. The program is not installed, so I have to find the file and click on it to run it, but I can manage with that, thanks.

There are Fedora and Flathub flatpaks, one of which is slightly newer than the bundled one, but not v141.

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Debian had instructions for the “manual install” from the downloaded file, here it is:

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That looks good, I’ll have a go.