Firefox icon missing from application list

[Rachel Hoots]

The icon for Firefox in the applications list on Ubuntu 22.04 has gone missing, as shown in the attached screenshot. The launcher is still there with text only, and clicking on it opens Firefox with no issue. This is the default installation of Firefox, not modified or replaced by me. To be specific, snap lists Firefox as version 102.0.1-1 and revision 1551. I have the Steam and Chrome apt repositories, but my list of apt packages has nothing mentioning Firefox.

Because I use Chrome instead, I'm mostly reporting this because it should be fixed for everyone else who may run into this problem, I don't need instructions on how to fix it myself.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better. Firefox is provided by a snap published by Mozilla, and they may not be aware of this issue. Please contact them via https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla and link the bug report here so it can be further tracked. Thank you!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I think it's fair we debug this one. Do you still have the issue after a restart?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Could it be that you have an old hard copy of /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktop in e.g. ~/.local/share/applications/ ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]