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Upon closing of Firefox, an extra Firefox icon is added to my desktop. What is causing this?

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Upon closing of Firefox, an extra firefox icon is being added to my desktop? I didn't have this problem before the last upgrade. I now have to drag the extra icon to my trash bin. What has happened?

Upon closing of Firefox, an extra firefox icon is being added to my desktop? I didn't have this problem before the last upgrade. I now have to drag the extra icon to my trash bin. What has happened?

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Try to enter 'about:config' in the address bar and switch dom.quotaManager.backgroundTask.enabled to false.


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Modified by TyDraniu