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Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2025 6:12 am**

hello friends,

i'm on mx-21 and i had to update firefox manually because firefox was nagging me to update by march 14...i followed another post here to update and it has installed into /opt area but everytime i click the firefox icon on the taskbar, it creates another gear icon on the taskbar instead of underlining the firefox icon itself like it used to. any ideas how to fix this? thanks in advance!

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Posted: **Thu Mar 13, 2025 9:25 pm**

Not sure why you didnt just update it in your regular updates via MX Update notifier ?

I have updated several of my MX21 machines using the regular MX repos and FireFox is just fine. latest 136.0.1

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:58 am**

Yes, when you see the notification from FF that updates are available, just sit tight and soon after, the updates will appear in the normal updates that come to MX. That will update the FF that is already installed in MX.

I'm guessing that since the panel/taskbar FF launcher points to the default preinstalled FF, when you run the /opt FF you are going to get a different icon on the panel.

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2025 11:51 am**

ah simple try right click on the panel "Firefox gear-icon" 2nd item down is "Edit Launcher"
when it opens right smack middle is the icon it using - double click to open the plethora of icon choices,
might open/max window to full size to see'm all but the original Foxy icon is to be found here.

trick is to double click this "Your Choice of many icon"
and make sure it does reflect when click Ok it results back to that "Edit Launcher Icon" and now click save and bobzerUncle.
simple.

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2025 1:56 pm**

The MX Firefox package has update notification turned off, so that begs the question of exactly what you have installed, and how you did so.

Posted: **Sat Mar 15, 2025 12:13 pm**

i actually followed this post:

viewtopic.php?p=809999#p809999

i already got a firefox launcher. when i click that launcher, it now creates a new gear icon on the taskbar and underlines it instead of underlining the firefox icon. so i have o remember to click on that underlined gear icon to get to my firefox. if i forgot and clicked on the firefox icon, it would open another new gear icon and underline it. and so on

thanks for help and sorry for delay.

Posted: **Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:04 pm**

signaloss wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 12:13 pm i actually followed this post:

viewtopic.php?p=809999#p809999

i already got a firefox launcher. when i click that launcher, it now creates a new gear icon on the taskbar and underlines it instead of underlining the firefox icon. so i have o remember to click on that underlined gear icon to get to my firefox. if i forgot and clicked on the firefox icon, it would open another new gear icon and underline it. and so on

thanks for help and sorry for delay.

MX 21 still gets updates, unlike MX 19, so will automatically get updated to the latest Firefox from the MX repository. So, it seems the problem is self-inflicted, and there's a Yiddish word for that: farpotshket. It describes something that's broken only because someone tried to fix it.

Posted: **Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:33 am**

for some reason when i tried apt update, apt upgrade it never updated firefox :(

thank you for expanding my yiddish vocabulary, i wish you had ideas how to fix this.

Posted: **Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:46 am**

Maybe you have a bad repository. Let's see what Firefox you have available:

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sudo apt update && apt policy firefox

Posted: **Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:24 am**

thanks for your reply, the output for the command is:

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Fetched 95.8 MB in 11s (8,955 kB/s)                                                                
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
firefox:
  Installed: 118.0.2~mozillabinaries-1mx21+1
  Candidate: 118.0.2~mozillabinaries-1mx21+1
  Version table:
 *** 118.0.2~mozillabinaries-1mx21+1 500
        500 http://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/mx-mirror/packages/mx/repo bullseye/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

this 118.0.2 was always warning me about march 14 issue.

updating manually with instructions on the post above i have 128.0.7esr

as an aside i would like to remove these *.in repositorys? because its quite slow i feel.

Posted: **Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:11 pm**

That mirror seems to have stopped doing any updates a couple of years ago, that's why the packages are old. Try switching to another with MX Repo Manager.

https://mirrors.piconets.webwerks.in/mx ... ol/main/f/

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:25 am**

wow thank you i never suspected. probably there is a yiddish word for it too :P thanks for your tips. changing the mirrors and updating seems to have fixed this. how does one check if the mirror(s) one has chosen are keeping up to the latest updates?

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2025 3:02 am**

signaloss wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:25 am how does one check if the mirror(s) one has chosen are keeping up to the latest updates?

One can check the MX mirrors status page. There's also a different page for packages.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2025 12:44 pm**

not 100% on the right Syntax but sudo apt full-grade firefox -y

again performed in a Terminal Shell.
MX performed updates upgrades in line with the need to distribute as time requires. Becomes a learning curve when one performs self initiate.
when in error such becomes "Trouble between Keyboard and Chair" shared in a different means defined.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:44 pm**

Yet the Mirrors Status Page says that piconets is updating.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:13 pm**

Stevo wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:44 pm Yet the Mirrors Status Page says that piconets is updating.

It's listed on the "ISO mirrors" status page.
The latest Release file of the package mirror is dated Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:12:36 UTC:

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Origin: MX repository
Label: MX repository
Suite: mx
Codename: bookworm
Version: 23.0
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:12:36 UTC
Architectures: i386 amd64 armhf arm64
Components: main non-free ahs ahs-staging
Description: This is the MX repository

Probably the reason why it was removed from the "Packages mirror" status page.

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