Subscribed. When you open a link from emacs does it become a child process to emac?
Can you test with the following scenario and see if it makes any difference: 1. launch firefox from terminal by "/path/to/firefox -P" 2. create a new temp profile (for the test) 3. then click a link on emacs + Alexar On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:08 AM Brian May via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I had already raised this issue, but I can't see any emails. > So maybe mistaken. > > But anyway, the problem is when I click on a pull down menu - any pull > down menu - in Firefox, it previously appears, but then disappears > immediately. e.g. right click on a web page (any web page). On click on > the one of the Firefox plugin menus. Or the Firefox menu. > > Unlikely many of the reported similar problems restarting Firefox solves > the problem, and it doesn't appear to be a problem with my Profile. As > in I have completely rebuilt my profile from scratch several times, and > eventually the problem comes back. > > Rather, I have found what triggers it appears to be clicking on a link > within notmuch inside emacs. The page loads OK. Then the very next menu > fails however. > > It only happens if I open a page from emacs. If I manually run > "firefox-esr http://www.google.com/"; or "xdg-open > http://www.google.com/"; it works fine. > > This has happened a while now on a range of different computers, running > different profiles, on different versions of Debian. > > Just noticed running strace on the emacs process, the firefox invocation > is a bit more complex then I might have noticed. I don't see any URL > even on the command line. Wonder if there is something here that is > killing menus. > > [pid 16180] execve("/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr", > ["/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr", "-contentproc", "-childID", "13", > "-isForBrowser", "-prefsLen", "7297", "-prefMapSize", "185946", > "-parentBuildID", "20200720181548", "-greomni", > "/usr/lib/firefox-esr/omni.ja", "-appomni", > "/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser/omni.ja", "-appdir", > "/usr/lib/firefox-esr/browser", "11615", "true", "tab"], 0x7fe29880c900 /* > 54 vars */) = 0 > -- > Brian May <[email protected]> > https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/ > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main > -- [image: image.jpg] *Alexar Pendashteh* technologist / social entrepreneur https://github.com/pendashteh
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