1433599 - Firefox Developer: Icon missing

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P5)

Description

[turigergely88]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 OPR/50.0.2762.58

Steps to reproduce:

The Firefox icon is missing in the start menu and the task-bar in Linux Mint (and probably other Debian based distros)
It turned out that the icons-folder that should be in the browser folder is missing.
(I noticed this last week but no one else seems to have) 


Actual results:

The Firefox icon is missing in the start menu and the task-bar


Expected results:

The Firefox icon should be visible in the start menu and the task-bar

Comment 1

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

Robert, does this sound familiar? Maybe an issue with a partial update file that's missing this folder?

Comment 2

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

Stephen, Robert -  I also noticed something similar for Win10, Dev-Edition (first time install) on my home machine, but got auto-fixed by first browser restart, so the root cause might be more spread than only impacting Linux distro's or/and only partial update.

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

mhowell might know.

Comment 4

[Molly Howell (she/her) (no longer active)]

This is news to me. It looks like bug 1415014 moved the icon file from browser/icons to browser/chrome/icons/default. My limited knowledge of Linux desktops tells me that somewhere there's probably a .desktop file that needs to be updated with the new path.

Adrian, this wouldn't be related to anything happening on Windows; every OS its own completely unique ways of finding icons to use for shortcuts. I haven't seen that issue on Windows either; could have been a strange Explorer fluke (those happen on Win10 with alarming frequency), especially if just restarting the browser fixed it.

Comment 5

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

Matt, we're also getting reports of the same issue on OSX (bug 1432609, bug 1392824). If I had to guess, our installer/updater or one of our patch files doesn't seem to properly handle the new icon location. Is it possible that some updates leave the old icon in place (user still has an app icon) while other updates remove the old icon and these users no longer have an app icon?

Comment 6

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

On OS X see bug 493503 for the underlying issue.

On Linux, the change of the icon location requires modifying the .desktop file which if it were to be done should be done from Firefox itself so it can also fix it for users other than the one that performs the update.

Comment 7

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

(In reply to Robert Strong [:rstrong] (use needinfo to contact me) from comment #6)
> On OS X see bug 493503 for the underlying issue.

Thank you! I was unaware of this bug. Will comment there.

Comment 8

[Molly Howell (she/her) (no longer active)]

Yeah, I don't think macOS uses these icon files for anything; it's got its own .icns files, and we haven't done anything with those that I know of.

Comment 9

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552613