{"id":38,"is_content":1,"post_type":"post","post_title":"Firefox Web Browser icon is seperate to running icon","slug":"firefox-web-browser-icon-is-seperate-to-running-icon","source_value":"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/1390276\/firefox-web-browser-icon-is-seperate-to-running-icon","fake_user_id":83655,"published_at":"2021-10-28T02:22:01.000000Z","view_count":0,"deleted_at":null,"created_at":"2022-02-01T10:08:20.000000Z","updated_at":"2023-05-28T04:45:39.000000Z","content":[{"id":10967557,"post_id":38,"fake_user_id":18174,"content_dec":"
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The Issue<\/h2>\n

In the applications menu, Firefox Web Browser appears with the correct name.<\/p>\n

When launching, it's name changes to just Firefox, and its icon appears as a greyscale version, instead of the usual symbolic version.<\/p>\n

This is not particularly annoying - just a minor inconsistency, but it means that the running Firefox icon is separate to the pinned icon.<\/p>\n

I did recently install Firefox inside wine, which added a new shortcut, but I don't see how it could conflict.<\/p>\n

The last time I encountered this issue was in Windows 7 and with Google Chrome, so it's been a while.<\/p>\n

I have tried reinstalling Firefox, but that didn't help.<\/p>\n

If I favourite Firefox instead of Firefox Web Browser, the icon won't launch anything. If I favourite Firefox Web Browser, it will launch as a separate icon.<\/p>\n

There may have been some background updates (I kept automatic updates on for security reasons - I don't usually bother to install them otherwise).<\/p>\n

I can probably manage this small issue, it just may be a bit hard to get used to having the icon in two different places. I don't want to pin them next to each other, because that looks even weirder - I'm already used to some non-native apps having this issue.<\/p>\n

Edit: It seems to be related to Wine, as when launching from the new logo, Wine starts up, before closing again.<\/p>\n

Screenshot<\/h2>\n

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It didn't take me long to realise that this was directly related to Wine.<\/p>\n

I hid the duplicate version of Firefox in my menu, but Firefox Web Browser must have picked up the other desktop file.<\/p>\n

I fixed this by removing \"~\/.local\/share\/applications\/Firefox.desktop\" and \"~\/.local\/share\/applications\/wine\/Programs\/Firefox.desktop\".<\/p>\n

If this happens to you, don't use Wine if the software is already available in Linux. I was just doing this for fun to see what happened.\nIf you do want to do this, make sure to remove the desktop files properly, otherwise you may encounter issues.<\/p>\n

I have had similar issues with desktop files, such as adding a Java-based application to my menu, and all Java processes appearing with the same icon in System Monitor.<\/p>\n <\/div>","created_at":"2023-05-28T04:45:39.000000Z","updated_at":"2023-05-28T04:45:39.000000Z"}],"tags":[{"id":82,"slug":"gnome","name":"Gnome","suggest":0,"count":9966,"tag_group_id":null,"description":null},{"id":15,"slug":"firefox","name":"Firefox","suggest":0,"count":3977,"tag_group_id":null,"description":null},{"id":83,"slug":"dock","name":"Dock","suggest":0,"count":351,"tag_group_id":null,"description":null}],"tagged":[{"id":109,"taggable_id":38,"taggable_type":"App\\Models\\Post","tag_name":"Gnome","tag_slug":"gnome","tag":{"id":82,"slug":"gnome","name":"Gnome","suggest":0,"count":9966,"tag_group_id":null,"description":null}},{"id":110,"taggable_id":38,"taggable_type":"App\\Models\\Post","tag_name":"Firefox","tag_slug":"firefox","tag":{"id":15,"slug":"firefox","name":"Firefox","suggest":0,"count":3977,"tag_group_id":null,"description":null}},{"id":111,"taggable_id":38,"taggable_type":"App\\Models\\Post","tag_name":"Dock","tag_slug":"dock","tag":{"id":83,"slug":"dock","name":"Dock","suggest":0,"count":351,"tag_group_id":null,"description":null}}]}