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It's my understanding that the path to the image used for the Firefox
shortcut icon changes as part of a Snap refresh. KDE is having trouble
with that. I've been told that there might be a Snap call needed to
update some icon cache specifically for KDE. I've also been told that
there may be a stale, outdated KDE cache that needs attention. As a
result, it was recommended that I create a KDE and a Snap bug report.
Here it is:

I use Kubuntu 22.04 LTS and I put a shortcut to Firefox on my panel
(taskbar) by right-clicking the Firefox entry in my K menu and choosing
"Add to Panel (Widget)" from the context menu.

When Snap pops up the reminder on screen every so often to tell me I
need to update it, I close Firefox and run the sudo snap refresh firefox
command.

Afterwards, the Firefox widget shortcut on the panel sometimes continues
to work without incident. Other times, however, it suffers a rather
dramatic cosmetic change by vanishing from sight while still existing.
When this happens, the invisible shortcut still takes up the same amount
of space on the panel, is still clickable, and still works (it creates
what appears to be a gap on the panel). This never happens immediately
during or right after the update, but always occurs either later that
day (during the same Kubuntu session) or when I boot up the next day.

My work-around is to delete the invisible Firefox shortcut from the
panel and recreate it from the K menu the same way I originally did. It
then looks and works fine until the next time an update makes it vanish.

Two final things I'd like to note are:
* The icon in the Firefox entry in the K menu never disappears when this 
happens.
* I'm only seeing the behavior in a Firefox widget shortcut on the panel. I 
haven't tested putting a Firefox shortcut onto the desktop or pinning a Firefox 
shortcut to the Task Manager. I'd be happy to test both of those if you'd like.

These two issue reports seem to be related to this one:
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1851490
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1851490

This issue report by me was filed against KDE in reference to this same issue:
* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472026

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Firefox panel icon disappears with Snap updates
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