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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

Colin
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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).

user1908704
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