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ididrum

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Registered: 2023-05-07

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] Firefox shows black screen after boot. App Restart needed

Hi yall,

As the title says, more often than not, I boot up Arch and try to directly open Firefox and it boots up immediately to a black screen. I am required to close and reopen it in order to get it working normally.

It often gives me the "Sorry we couldn't get your pages back" error.

Does anyone know what this is or have had a similar issue?

Cheers

Last edited by ididrum (2023-06-17 10:07:54)

SaladevX

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Registered: 2023-06-02

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox shows black screen after boot. App Restart needed

Hello,

Just wanted to chime in and say the same thing has been happening on my machine. It's not the end of the world, as like you mentioned, quitting and re-opening Firefox seems to do the trick, but it is rather annoying.

My relevant specs:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.3.5-zen1-1-zen
DE: GNOME 44.1
WM: Mutter

Skidout

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Registered: 2023-05-26

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox shows black screen after boot. App Restart needed

Try launcing

firefox

from the terminal and see if that gives you any error messages. Also try

firefox --safe-mode

to disable extensions and themes on startup to see if that's causing an issue.

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox shows black screen after boot. App Restart needed

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285713

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ididrum

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Registered: 2023-05-07

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox shows black screen after boot. App Restart needed

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285713

thanks for the link. yea. the issue seems to be with wayland. solution was adding MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 to the /etc/enviornment file to persist it.

It worked on my first reboot. lets see if it sticks