Firefox/Thunderbird/Libreoffice suite busy wait at startup on Wayland

Cannot use apport either as it fails with "firefox has been upgraded since you reported" error since I have not done any upgrades at that time.

Happens even with a clean profile.

Apport output for firefox(manually entered here as apport fails):
firefox 59.0~b5+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
Bug
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
Apport: 2.20.8-0ubuntu8
amd64
Audio: irrelevant as not a sound related bug
BuildID: 20180201215627
Channel: Beta
Desktop: GNOME
Extensions: Dark Mode, IPFS companion, Greasemonkey (apport fails to list them)
Plugins: Flash
DistroRelease: 18.04
InstallationMedia: irrelevant as the system is fully upgraded over it three times
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-lowlatency 4.13.13
Tags: third-party-packages bionic wayland-session-beta-channel

Apport output for thunderbird(manually entered again, the lines which are identical are eliminated):
thunderbird 1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1
Tags: bionic wayland-session
Extensions: none (apport fails to detect)

Happens even in a live cd or a fresh install produced from it.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Two firefox processes remain on the process list (ps -e) but they never produce a window, and are killable with sudo kill -9 <pid>

This bug also occurs with libreoffice.

Is this bug Gecko related? All three share Gecko as their HTML layout engine.

Firefox and Libreoffice are working again for me after the latest updates. Possibly as a result of:

gnome-session (3.26.1-0ubuntu9) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/ubuntu-session.links, debian/patches/50_ubuntu_sessions.patch,
    debian/ubuntu-session.install:
    - Change ubuntu session to be running on Xorg by default. Added
      an optional ubuntu-wayland one.

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:57:16 +0100

Can you confirm the fix Erkin?

This is not fixed as long as it does not work correctly on Wayland.

It does work on X.org indeed. But not wayland.

I found an upstream bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885920 Does the workaround listed in it's description work for you?

It seems like we just need to wait for Firefox 59 for Wayland support.

>It seems like we just need to wait for Firefox 59 for Wayland support.

It also happens in 59 beta.

The debian bug report suggests this happens only with AMD GPUs.

My laptop with an Intel GPU doesn't seem to be affected.

Everyone affected, what's your GPU ?

It is an AMD GPU.