• CAUTION: firefox-141.0 doesn't start if gtk+ doesn't have wayland support

    From Lew Pitcher@lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca to alt.comp.software.firefox on Wed Jul 23 14:13:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

    Mozilla released Firefox 141.0.0 yesterday, which (in my case) caused my working
    Firefox 140.0.4 installation to autoupdate. Well, the update failed, leaving me with an unusable Firefox installation.

    It appears that, despite having X11 support, Firefox 141.0.0 now expects some amount of Wayland support to be available through the GTK3 shared object.

    Mozilla is aware of this issue, and have created a fix. I can't tell if or
    when they will release the fix, so you might want to exercise caution with firefox updates.

    You can find the bug report at
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1978620
    and the fix commit at
    https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/b521b4d4766d
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    Lew Pitcher
    "In Skills We Trust"
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