[SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

merilius · 2019-03-27 00:58:42

I have a strange problem with firefox. When I want to add an extension a popup from the address bar appears with options to either add or to cancel adding an extension.
Whatever I click it does nothing. The popup remains, the extension is not installed and the only way to close this popup is to close the tab or refresh the page. (Cancelling does not work either)
Strangely this does not happen under Gnome or LxQt+compiz! I don't get it.
I tried disabling various desktop effects, but it did not help.

Edit: I tried LxQt + kwin and managed to reproduce it under LxQt this way! So it is some kind of kwin problem... Or firefox...

http://serwer.sucha.eu/~balwierz/tmp/fi … orking.png

EDIT, SOLVED:
It is the mouse cursor focus policy. I had it set all the way to the right (focus strictly follows cursor, like in the old X11 days). Set it to anything lower than this to resolve the issue.
Apparently these firefox popup windows (extension adding, notification questions) are not typical windows and are not dealt with by kwin well when focusPolicy == 3.

Last edited by merilius (2019-03-29 13:47:40)

jasonwryan · 2019-03-27 01:12:13

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

Moving to NC...

Lone_Wolf · 2019-03-27 12:42:02

please start firefox from terminal in one of the problem cases, try to add an extension and close firefox.
post the terminal output.

merilius · 2019-03-27 12:47:14

Console output from firefox. All messages appeared at closing time.

[Parent 22724, Gecko_IOThread] WARNING: pipe error (48): Connection reset by peer: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 357
IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)

[Parent 22724, Gecko_IOThread] WARNING: pipe error (114): Connection reset by peer: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 357

Last edited by merilius (2019-03-27 12:48:38)

Lone_Wolf · 2019-03-27 12:54:47

These look relevant
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/506 … e#50703960

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410187

especially comment 11 & 12 from the mozilla bug report.

Does disabling compositing temporarily help ?

post lspci -k please

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2019-03-27 13:01:46)

merilius · 2019-03-27 13:26:33

The second link is about firefox for windows, no extension popup mentioned, youtube links are dead.
The first one claims that the issue is fixed in nightly. It isn't for me

This is what I get from nightly:

IPDL protocol error: Handler returned error code!

###!!! [Parent][DispatchAsyncMessage] Error: PLayerTransaction::Msg_ReleaseLayer Processing error: message was deserialized, but the handler returned false (indicating failure)
###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel] Error: (msgtype=0x1F0088,name=PBrowser::Msg_Destroy) Closed channel: cannot send/recv
###!!! [Child][MessageChannel] Error: (msgtype=0x360114,name=PContent::Msg_DetachBrowsingContext) Closed channel: cannot send/recv

I disabled compositing by unchecking system settings -> compositor settings and desktop effect -> enable compositor on startup
and by logging out and back in.
It did not help.

$ lspci -k
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
	Kernel driver in use: skl_uncore
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller
	Kernel driver in use: mei_me
	Kernel modules: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Q170/Q150/B150/H170/H110/Z170/CM236 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Q170/Q150/B150/H170/H110/Z170/CM236 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]
	Kernel driver in use: ahci
	Kernel modules: ahci
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #17 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Z170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus
	Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
	Kernel modules: i2c_i801
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V (rev 31)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V
	Kernel driver in use: e1000e
	Kernel modules: e1000e
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GP104 High Definition Audio Controller
	Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
	Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
03:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller
	Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
	Kernel modules: xhci_pci

Last edited by merilius (2019-03-27 13:27:15)

V1del · 2019-03-28 10:37:36

Worksforme, what's your output for

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation

maybe you have some overeager focus catching enabled.

merilius · 2019-03-28 13:17:57

On a different computer with integrated Intel GPU it works for me as well.

$ qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation
KWin Support Information:
The following information should be used when requesting support on e.g. https://forum.kde.org.
It provides information about the currently running instance, which options are used,
what OpenGL driver and which effects are running.
Please post the information provided underneath this introductory text to a paste bin service
like http://paste.kde.org instead of pasting into support threads.

==========================

Version
=======
KWin version: 5.15.3
Qt Version: 5.13.0
Qt compile version: 5.13.0
XCB compile version: 1.13.1

Operation Mode: X11 only

Build Options
=============
KWIN_BUILD_DECORATIONS: yes
KWIN_BUILD_TABBOX: yes
KWIN_BUILD_ACTIVITIES: yes
HAVE_DRM: yes
HAVE_GBM: yes
HAVE_X11_XCB: yes
HAVE_EPOXY_GLX: yes
HAVE_WAYLAND_EGL: yes

X11
===
Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
Vendor Release: 12004000
Protocol Version/Revision: 11/0
SHAPE: yes; Version: 0x11
RANDR: yes; Version: 0x14
DAMAGE: yes; Version: 0x11
Composite: yes; Version: 0x4
RENDER: yes; Version: 0xb
XFIXES: yes; Version: 0x50
SYNC: yes; Version: 0x31
GLX: yes; Version: 0x0

Decoration
==========
Plugin: org.kde.breeze
Theme: 
Blur: 0
onAllDesktopsAvailable: true
alphaChannelSupported: true
closeOnDoubleClickOnMenu: false
decorationButtonsLeft: 0, 2
decorationButtonsRight: 8, 9, 6, 3, 4, 5
borderSize: 4
gridUnit: 18
font: Noto Sans,11,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0,Regular
smallSpacing: 4
largeSpacing: 18

Platform
==========
Name: KWin::X11StandalonePlatform

Options
=======
focusPolicy: 3
nextFocusPrefersMouse: false
clickRaise: true
autoRaise: false
autoRaiseInterval: 750
delayFocusInterval: 0
shadeHover: true
shadeHoverInterval: 250
separateScreenFocus: false
placement: 6
focusPolicyIsReasonable: false
borderSnapZone: 10
windowSnapZone: 10
centerSnapZone: 0
snapOnlyWhenOverlapping: false
rollOverDesktops: true
focusStealingPreventionLevel: 0
legacyFullscreenSupport: false
operationTitlebarDblClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonLeftClick: 5000
operationMaxButtonMiddleClick: 5015
operationMaxButtonRightClick: 5014
commandActiveTitlebar1: 0
commandActiveTitlebar2: 30
commandActiveTitlebar3: 2
commandInactiveTitlebar1: 4
commandInactiveTitlebar2: 30
commandInactiveTitlebar3: 2
commandWindow1: 7
commandWindow2: 8
commandWindow3: 8
commandWindowWheel: 31
commandAll1: 10
commandAll2: 3
commandAll3: 14
keyCmdAllModKey: 16777251
showGeometryTip: false
condensedTitle: false
electricBorderMaximize: true
electricBorderTiling: true
electricBorderCornerRatio: 0.25
borderlessMaximizedWindows: false
killPingTimeout: 5000
hideUtilityWindowsForInactive: true
inactiveTabsSkipTaskbar: false
autogroupSimilarWindows: false
autogroupInForeground: true
compositingMode: 1
useCompositing: true
compositingInitialized: true
hiddenPreviews: 1
glSmoothScale: 2
xrenderSmoothScale: false
maxFpsInterval: 16666666
refreshRate: 0
vBlankTime: 6000000
glStrictBinding: false
glStrictBindingFollowsDriver: true
glCoreProfile: true
glPreferBufferSwap: 0
glPlatformInterface: 1
windowsBlockCompositing: true

Screen Edges
============
desktopSwitching: false
desktopSwitchingMovingClients: false
cursorPushBackDistance: 1x1
timeThreshold: 150
reActivateThreshold: 350
actionTopLeft: 0
actionTop: 0
actionTopRight: 0
actionRight: 0
actionBottomRight: 0
actionBottom: 0
actionBottomLeft: 0
actionLeft: 0

Screens
=======
Multi-Head: no
Active screen follows mouse:  yes
Number of Screens: 1

Screen 0:
---------
Name: DP-2
Geometry: 0,0,3840x2160
Scale: 1
Refresh Rate: 59.9966


Compositing
===========
Compositing is active
Compositing Type: OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.1.0 NVIDIA 418.56
OpenGL platform interface: GLX
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Driver: NVIDIA
Driver version: 418.56
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 3.1
GLSL version: 1.40
X server version: 1.20.4
Linux kernel version: 5.0.4
Direct rendering: Requires strict binding: no
GLSL shaders:  yes
Texture NPOT support:  yes
Virtual Machine:  no
OpenGL 2 Shaders are used
Painting blocks for vertical retrace:  no

Loaded Effects:
---------------
zoom
kwin4_effect_fadingpopups
kwin4_effect_frozenapp
kwin4_effect_logout
kwin4_effect_windowaperture
kwin4_effect_translucency
kwin4_effect_morphingpopups
kwin4_effect_maximize
kwin4_effect_login
kwin4_effect_fade
kwin4_effect_dialogparent
slidingpopups
screenshot
magiclamp
desktopgrid
cubeslide
cube
colorpicker
sheet
wobblywindows
presentwindows
highlightwindow
blur
contrast
startupfeedback
screenedge
kscreen

Currently Active Effects:
-------------------------
blur
contrast

Effect Settings:
----------------
zoom:
zoomFactor: 1.2
mousePointer: 0
mouseTracking: 0
enableFocusTracking: false
followFocus: true
focusDelay: 350
moveFactor: 20
targetZoom: 1

kwin4_effect_fadingpopups:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_frozenapp:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_logout:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_windowaperture:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_translucency:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_morphingpopups:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_maximize:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_login:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_fade:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

kwin4_effect_dialogparent:
isActiveFullScreenEffect: false

slidingpopups:
slideInDuration: 75
slideOutDuration: 125

screenshot:

magiclamp:

desktopgrid:
zoomDuration: 150
border: 10
desktopNameAlignment: 0
layoutMode: 0
customLayoutRows: 2
usePresentWindows: true

cubeslide:
rotationDuration: 250
dontSlidePanels: true
dontSlideStickyWindows: false
usePagerLayout: true
useWindowMoving: false

cube:
cubeOpacity: 0.800000011920929
opacityDesktopOnly: false
displayDesktopName: true
reflection: true
rotationDuration: 250
backgroundColor: #000000
capColor: #eff0f1
paintCaps: true
closeOnMouseRelease: false
zPosition: 100
useForTabBox: false
invertKeys: false
invertMouse: false
capDeformationFactor: 0
useZOrdering: false
texturedCaps: true

colorpicker:

sheet:
duration: 150

wobblywindows:
stiffness: 0.1
drag: 0.85
moveFactor: 0.1
xTesselation: 20
yTesselation: 20
minVelocity: 0
maxVelocity: 1000
stopVelocity: 0.5
minAcceleration: 0
maxAcceleration: 1000
stopAcceleration: 0.5
moveEffectEnabled: true
openEffectEnabled: false
closeEffectEnabled: false
moveWobble: true
resizeWobble: true

presentwindows:
layoutMode: 0
showCaptions: true
showIcons: true
doNotCloseWindows: false
ignoreMinimized: false
accuracy: 20
fillGaps: true
fadeDuration: 75
showPanel: false
leftButtonWindow: 1
rightButtonWindow: 2
middleButtonWindow: 0
leftButtonDesktop: 2
middleButtonDesktop: 0
rightButtonDesktop: 0

highlightwindow:

blur:

contrast:

startupfeedback:
type: 1

screenedge:

kscreen:

Last edited by merilius (2019-03-28 13:18:57)

V1del · 2019-03-28 19:28:44

My focus policy is 0 your focusPolicy is 3 which is the far right and highly discouraged setting in KWin's settings kcm, and likely the cause for your issue. set that to something reasonable (one that doesn't pop up bold warning messages ) in kcmshell5 kwinoptions

Last edited by V1del (2019-03-28 19:30:26)

merilius · 2019-03-29 01:50:30

Yes, That was it. Thank you!
works for focusPolicy <= 2

V1del · 2019-03-29 03:21:18

Glad to hear, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

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#1 2019-03-27 00:58:42

[SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#2 2019-03-27 01:12:13

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#3 2019-03-27 12:42:02

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#4 2019-03-27 12:47:14

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#5 2019-03-27 12:54:47

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#6 2019-03-27 13:26:33

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#7 2019-03-28 10:37:36

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#8 2019-03-28 13:17:57

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#9 2019-03-28 19:28:44

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

#10 2019-03-29 01:50:30

Re: [SOLVED] cannot add firefox extensions under Plasma

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