10-18-2022 07:26 PM
Everytime Firefox gets a new update the pinned taskbar icon somehow become an invalid link and Windows 10 ask me to delete the pinned icon.
Anyone know how to solve this strange problem?
03-25-2024 07:31 PM
Install Firefox with standard type, it will be OK.
Install with custom type and don't create icons, run Firefox, right-click Firefox icon and select "Pin to taskbar", this pinned icon will be broken after updates.
03-27-2024 08:42 AM
Thank you for trying to be helpful but the whole point (at least for me) is:
I have a solution though..... See my next post below.
03-27-2024 12:30 PM
Likewise, I have a completely separate (physical) Apps drive from my O/S drive. Never the twain shall they meet.
Because of this I have to go down the custom route.
Every other app can get this right and working, why can't Firefox.
03-27-2024 07:19 PM - edited 03-27-2024 07:20 PM
So I think the problem is Firefox modifies pinned shortcuts when updates.
Why it need to do that? 🤔
04-17-2024 10:39 PM
Just started using Firefox this year and I have been having this issue since I started. I'm up to 9 different Firefox shortcut files in my TaskBar folder. Probably this is more of a Windows 10 bug than a Firefox bug, though I'd wonder why other programs don't have this issue. The shortcuts themselves work so it must be something with how the registry data for this is stored; but it's all in binary so I don't know how to interpret it to find what would be wrong with it, if anything. I might look into it a bit more the next time it happens.
08-22-2024 11:08 PM
WTF, still no solution! Every update of FF I need to make a shortcut again. Having it for two years now, I am almost ready to start using Edge...
08-22-2024 11:58 PM
Hello.
I had that issue, as well (still do, I assume). What I ended up doing was to use the Links-bar and put the shortcuts for each FF profile that I wanted to use. Sure, it's not optimal, but it doesn't reset the shortcuts after every update.
08-23-2024 12:02 AM
What do you mean by the links-bar?
08-23-2024 03:37 AM
I don't know what it's called in English (or your native language), but. I mean the taskbar has an option that is called "Länkar" in Swedish, which translates into Links in English. That gives you a section on the taskbar to put shortcuts that are separate from the pinned app's shortcuts.
08-23-2024 03:53 AM
Thanks, but it does not work with Win11 Pro and Firefox. I appreciate your effort to help me.
08-23-2024 04:12 AM
Sorry, yes. I am still on Windows 10. 😞