Firefox icon in the dock is not appearing
I have Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I was running Firefox Beta, and I decided to update to v18b2 today. That was a mistake. Firefox is still running (and seems to be doing so fine), but the dock has no Firefox icon. I also tried opening Nightly (which has its own profile, I don't use my regular profile for Nightly), but the same problem occurred. I downgraded to v17 release and the same problem occurred. Without the dock icon I cannot easily switch to Firefox from another app. Firefox doesn't even appear when cmd-tabbing between apps! It still appears in Activity Monitor, but it's really annoying and changing the app or profile is not working. Luckily the windows appear in Expose, but it's really damaging to my workflow.
An image of my problem: http://i.imgur.com/tHsNF.png Notice the lack of Firefox on the dock.
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Nevermind, it's a problem with all apps since the update. Since this is not a Firefox problem, this can be closed.
Download a new copy of the Firefox program and save the disk image (dmg) file to the desktop
- Firefox 17.0.1: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
- Trash the current Firefox application (e.g. open the Applications folder in the Finder and drag the Firefox application to the Trash) to do a clean (re-)install
- Install the new version that you have downloaded
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Mac
Your profile data is stored elsewhere in the Firefox Profile Folder, so you won't lose your bookmarks and other personal data if you uninstall and (re)install Firefox.
Make sure that Firefox gets installed properly.
Open the Firefox disk image (DMG) file and drag the Firefox program to the application folder on your hard drive. You shouldn't double-click the Firefox application to run it from the disk image, but drag it out of the DMG folder instead.