1569758 - Every time Firefox updates, my taskbar shortcut icon disappears and the link is no longer valid (Windows 10)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1495295

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Duncan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Just opened Firefox as usual, if there is an update it does so automatically

Actual results:

Once Firefox has updated, if I close it, the shortcut link on my Windows 10 taskbar no longer works and the Firefox icon has disappeared, having been replaced with an icon of a blank page.

Expected results:

Firefox should have updated and the icon and link still work just as before.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:jimm, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:jimm, could you have a look please?

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Comment 3

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

Shortcut maintenance including the taskbar shortcuts happens after an update has been successful and is entirely controlled by the installer code using similar / same code that creates shortcuts on install so fixing the component.