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I have Firefox as one of my favorites. When I open Firefox, the little "running dot" in the favorites bar is missing. So when I click the icon to return to the open instance, another instance opens instead.

When I remove Firefox as one of my Favorites, the orange dot appears, and clicking the icon returns me to the running instance.

I know I can go to "Activities" and find the window, but I'm in the habit of using the bar. But I'm wondering what would cause an app not to show a running dot. It may be just a Firefox problem, but the fact it shows when not a favorite suggests it might be an Ubuntu problem.

Edit: Running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Firefox 100

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  • First, right click on the icon to remove it, then when FF is running ater selecting it from `Activities`, right click the icon in the dock and select `Add to Favourites` then select from the `Dock` as normal. – graham May 19 '22 at 03:04
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    We have no idea what version of Ubuntu and Firefox you might be running. Please add that information to your question: use "edit". – vanadium May 19 '22 at 09:30
  • Thanks @vanadium. – Colin May 19 '22 at 23:53
  • @24601 doesn't work as indicated - once I drag the icon back above the line to make it a favorite the dot disappears. – Colin May 19 '22 at 23:54
  • I cannot reproduce that on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 where Firefox is set as a favorite by default – vanadium May 20 '22 at 07:47
  • @vanadium me neither on a fresh install even though I have removed the snap and installed the APT version. I'm still not sure that the OP has followed the suggested route in the steps outlined. – graham May 20 '22 at 12:39
  • Ah, I think you guys are on to something. Because of the change to SNAP in 22.04, I had to migrate my profile from APT to SNAP following: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1288879/installed-firefox-to-migrate-from-classic-installation-to-snap . Maybe that had something to do with it? – Colin May 21 '22 at 03:30
  • Maybe @Colin. Is it not easier to create a Firefox account since when you log on to a new device (snap or APT) your profile will follow you. That is what I have done and it worked perfectly well pulling across all my Bookmarks in the process. Makes life with FF much easier – graham May 21 '22 at 06:16
  • @24601 I have one indeed. At the time I had a stack of tabs open that I wanted to follow me. Still, can hardly think that a profile migration would cause a disappearing dot?? – Colin May 21 '22 at 12:42
  • stranger things have happened – graham May 21 '22 at 13:03

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Not really an answer, but there's a bug 1972545 here and a collection of other bugs on a similar effect.

One suggestion is that it may be that these are snaps: the snap has updated behind the scenes but Firefox (or other app) has not yet been restarted. It is claimed that restarting Firefox will fix it (until the next time).

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