For those who are interested in this problem, here is some code I used to solve this problem. I offer no guarantees that this is the best approach but it works the way I want it to. Note that this code introduces an intermediary class, EventRepository, that was not mentioned in the OP. I left out this class to keep the OP simple.

use EventRepository;

my $er = EventRepository->new(launch => 'firefox', activate => 1);
$er->get('http://google.com');

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Here is the EventRepository class with an method overriding the parent class, FFMech:

use Moose;
extends 'FFMech';

sub get {
  my ($self, $url) = @_;
  $self->SUPER::get($url, synchronize => 0);
}

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And here is the FFMech class which extends WWW::Mechanize::Firefox and is used to basically prep the Firefox window for use by X11::GUITest:

$ENV{'DISPLAY'} = ':0.0'; #allows script to run when called from remot
+e terminal window
use X11::GUITest qw/SendKeys FindWindowLike ClickWindow SetEventSendDe
+lay/;
use Moose;
use MooseX::NonMoose;
extends 'WWW::Mechanize::Firefox';

has 'window_id' => (
  is => 'rw',
  isa => 'Int',
);

sub BUILD {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->window_id(FindWindowLike('Mozilla Firefox'));
  ClickWindow($self->window_id);
}

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