how to change taskbar icon?

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dwaynek
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how to change taskbar icon?

Post by dwaynek »

the old firefox used to use main-window.ico in a path like browser\chrome\icons\default but i noticed this no longer works in the new firefox quantum.

how do i change the taskbar icon for the new firefox in windows 10?
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

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Right click on the taskbar icon, then right click on "Firefox", then click Properties, then click "Change Icon..."
Do, or do not. There is no try.
morat
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

Post by morat »

It works for me.

C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\browser\chrome\icons\default\main-window.ico

I'm using the main-window.ico file in the grayrest icon pack as a test image.

Firefox Icon Packs
http://iconpacks.mozdev.org/

Firefox Portable 62.0
Windows 7 SP1 32-bit
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(Just to note, for SeaMonkey the directory location is different, .../SeaMonkey/chrome/... rather then ...[Firefox]/browser/chrome/...)
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

Post by dwaynek »

morat wrote:It works for me.

C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\browser\chrome\icons\default\main-window.ico

I'm using the main-window.ico file in the grayrest icon pack as a test image.

Firefox Icon Packs
http://iconpacks.mozdev.org/

Firefox Portable 62.0
Windows 7 SP1 32-bit
thanks but i'm using firefoxportable and main-window.ico no longer works for windows 10. i see you're still using win 7, morat. yes it used to work in win7 but no longer in win10.
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(Wonder why the OS, 10, should make a difference?)
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

Post by atlanto »

It works for me.
Windows10 1803(64bit)
FirefoxPortable 62.0.2 (->62.0.3)
Firefox 63.0b11
Firefox 64.0a1 (2018-10-03)
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

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morat wrote:It works for me.

C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\browser\chrome\icons\default\main-window.ico

I'm using the main-window.ico file in the grayrest icon pack as a test image.

Firefox Icon Packs
http://iconpacks.mozdev.org/

Firefox Portable 62.0
Windows 7 SP1 32-bit
This does not work for me either. This is already a "quantum" era version, so it should work the same. Did they make further changes after this? I'm trying with current dev edition.
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

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Are you using the \Firefox\ or \Firefox64\ folder?

i.e.

C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\browser\chrome\icons\default\main-window.ico
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox64\browser\chrome\icons\default\main-window.ico
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

Post by avada »

morat wrote:Are you using the \Firefox\ or \Firefox64\ folder?

i.e.

C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\browser\chrome\icons\default\main-window.ico
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox64\browser\chrome\icons\default\main-window.ico
I use the application folder of dev edition, and within .\browser\chrome\icons\default\. (Not using a portable version.)
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

Post by morat »

It doesn't work here in Firefox 82.

Window icons
http://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Archi ... ndow_icons

Test icons
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... th=.ico%24

Reference
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-esr60/sear ... ault%22%29
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... ault%22_ns
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/so ... ersion.txt

The app_dir is "AChrom" or "NS_APP_CHROME_DIR" in the source code.

i.e. C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\browser\chrome

The feature doesn't seem to be ripped out.
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

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morat wrote:It doesn't work here in Firefox 82.

Window icons
http://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Archi ... ndow_icons

Test icons
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... th=.ico%24

Reference
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-esr60/sear ... ault%22%29
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/se ... ault%22_ns
http://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/so ... ersion.txt

The app_dir is "AChrom" or "NS_APP_CHROME_DIR" in the source code.

i.e. C:\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\browser\chrome

The feature doesn't seem to be ripped out.
Found what happened to it. It was disabled in Firefox 67.
But fortunately they added a preference override: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.windowIcon needs to be true.

One less problem to deal with.
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

Post by avada »

Although it was more useful to have different icons for different profiles, though I guess that's lost now since the addon to do that doesn't install anymore.
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Re: how to change taskbar icon?

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Looks like it's solved now so locking due to the age of the original posts.
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