The same issue happens to me when opening links from any app on Wayland. For example, every time I click a link on a Discord chat, I have to manually click on the Firefox window because the focus is not automatic.
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Same for me on Ubuntu 23.10. When I open a discord link I get a notification saying "Firefox is ready" instead of switching focus to firefox, and clicking that notification does not open Firefox.
Maybe Firefox, Thunderbird or Steam are running in XWayland and that causes different behaviour between them. Just guessing.
I thought that too but if you see my edits above, I tried several different app combos, and it's not consistent. I tried setting Chromium as my default browser (it opened all links and took focus correctly every time) and when I switched Firefox back to the default browser, Firefox didn't take focus from Steam even though it did originally 🤦🏻♀️