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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>
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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?

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

Nope, Andy. Taskbar is still the 'regular' for me, also on Win 11.
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Nobody wrote:

Nope, Andy. Taskbar is still the 'regular' for me, also on Win 11.

Even having closed all tabs and restarted FF, I still get the wireframe
globe ...

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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>

The tab says "Get Firefox - Firefox.cc". The little globe seems to be
part of it. Where did you get the installation packet of FF?
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Frank Miller wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

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

The tab says "Get Firefox - Firefox.cc". The little globe seems to be
part of it.

Yes the screenshot is showing the getfirefox site, but that's not
relevant, it shows the globe for all websites, there is a fraction of a
second delay between the FF icon and the globe 'badge' being overlaid on
it.

Where did you get the installation packet of FF?

It was my v148.0.2 that updated to v149
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:54:44 +0100, Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee>
wrote:

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>

The tab says "Get Firefox - Firefox.cc". The little globe seems to be
part of it. Where did you get the installation packet of FF?

That dot cc opens what appears to be the legitimate Firefox home page
in Chinese... but I don't spy any icon incorporating the globe.
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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> writes:

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>

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1oxe6m1/what_is_this_black_icon_on_my_firefox_icon

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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>

Do you have multiple (language) keyboards turned on?
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Do you have multiple (language) keyboards turned on?

No, just English (United Kingdom)

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Nobody wrote:

That dot cc opens what appears to be the legitimate Firefox home page
in Chinese... but I don't spy any icon incorporating the globe.

I don't think it was actually "firefox.cc" but "firefox.com" where the
"o" in "com" got truncated in my taskbar to look a bit like a "c"; but
the actual URL is a red herring, the globe is there for every URL I visit.
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Richmond wrote:

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

There might be something in that, I did visit the profiles settings
shortly after updating to v149, I don't usually do much with profiles,
let me look ...

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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>

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
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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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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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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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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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