From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

Andy Burns wrote:

Richmond wrote:

It is your profile badge apparently. I don't see one.

There might be something in that

Bingo!

My old profile, seems to now be called "Original profile" and has an
avatar icon of a globe ... but I have gained another one called "Profile
1", I suspect they're pushing use of profiles?

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> writes:

Andy Burns wrote:

Richmond wrote:

It is your profile badge apparently. I don't see one.

There might be something in that

Bingo!

My old profile, seems to now be called "Original profile" and has an
avatar icon of a globe ... but I have gained another one called
"Profile 1", I suspect they're pushing use of profiles?

Perhaps. I am on 150beta now, and I see there is a profile menu, I am
not sure when that appeared. It allows switching easily between
profiles. You could always do it with about:profiles but it was not
obvious.

I am on Linux which explains why it could not meddle with my task bar.
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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

Andy Burns wrote:

My old profile, seems to now be called "Original profile" and has an
avatar icon of a globe ... but I have gained another one called "Profile
1", I suspect they're pushing use of profiles?

You can't actually remove an icon from a profile, only change it to a different icon, but having now deleted the second profile that was
created yesterday, the original profile no longer displays its icon as
it's the only profile ... mystery solved, thanks.

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R Daneel Olivaw wrote:

I saw an article on https://slashdot.org/ a few days ago which explains this, Firefox wants a different look.
Found it - https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/21/027217/firefox- announces-built-in-vpn-and-other-new-features---and-introduces-its-new- mascot

I did see an article where they wanted "Firefox" to almost replace
"Mozilla" as the overarching brand, but then "Firefox:Browser" to be the
new name for "Firefox" and other products to be introduced such as "Firefox:VPN" etc and the fox+planet artwork has been watered down a
little and made more cutesy, that doesn't bother me, if they're having a
bit of a push to emphasise why FF is different I see that as a good thing.

Can't see them getting everyone to refer to "firefox" as
"firefox:browser" though ...



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In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:54:13 +0000, Andy
Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Since upgrading to v149.0 (Win11) the firefox icon in the taskbar always
has a globe 'badge' superimposed on it, anyone else? what is it trying
to indicate?

You are now a deputy, and you can arrest anyone violating FF standards.

<http://andyburns.uk/misc/firefox-icon.png>

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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:54:13 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

Since upgrading to v149.0 (Win11) the firefox icon in the taskbar always
has a globe 'badge' superimposed on it, anyone else? what is it trying
to indicate?

<http://andyburns.uk/misc/firefox-icon.png>

Perhaps it's related to auto-translation?
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:11:40 +0000, Richmond wrote:

It allows switching easily between profiles. You could always do it
with about:profiles but it was not obvious.

firefox -ProfileManager

has been there since forever.

<https://manpages.debian.org/firefox(1)>

(Did you know there was a man page?)
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Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:11:40 +0000, Richmond wrote:

It allows switching easily between profiles. You could always do it
with about:profiles but it was not obvious.

firefox -ProfileManager

has been there since forever.

Yes, but that's the "old" profile manager. Now they implemented a "new"
one also, which works a little bit differently from the old one.
If you use them both you could end up with a muddled mix of profiles
which aren't always usable. BTDT.
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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:11:40 +0000, Richmond wrote:

It allows switching easily between profiles. You could always do it
with about:profiles but it was not obvious.

firefox -ProfileManager

has been there since forever.

Yes, but it doesn't allow you to switch profiles, it allows you to
choose a profile when starting Firefox. The about:profiles page allows
you to launch another profile without quitting the first.
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Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> writes:

Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:11:40 +0000, Richmond wrote:

It allows switching easily between profiles. You could always do it
with about:profiles but it was not obvious.

firefox -ProfileManager

has been there since forever.

Yes, but that's the "old" profile manager. Now they implemented a "new"
one also, which works a little bit differently from the old one.
If you use them both you could end up with a muddled mix of profiles
which aren't always usable. BTDT.

Ah, and they are stored in different places, how confusing. I see the
new ones are in sqlite databases.
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On 3/26/2026 4:54 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

Since upgrading to v149.0 (Win11) the firefox icon in the taskbar always
has a globe 'badge' superimposed on it, anyone else? what is it trying
to indicate?

Windows 10 here. Firefox's icon did not change after upgrading....

Could it be the icon for Private Mode? Or maybe the new, free VPN?
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:

Windows 10 here. Firefox's icon did not change after upgrading....

Could it be the icon for Private Mode? Or maybe the new, free VPN?

Richmond figured it out, the icon gains a badge if you have more than
one profile created. After the upgrade, I think v149 shepherded me to
the profile manager ...
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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

On 3/28/2026 1:16 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

Richmond figured it out, the icon gains a badge if you have more than
one profile created. After the upgrade, I think v149 shepherded me to
the profile manager ...

When I got time, will test this ... :)
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