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on windows XP, quite often Firefox will lose its taskbar icon when it's been minimised, however if i know it's still runnung, it can be alt-tabed to. does anyone know why this happens or is it just a bug?

edit: it's a known bug

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I've noticed this too - although only occasionally. It seemed to be most prevalent when I had lots of applications open and/or two or more Firefox windows.

I think it's just a bug. Is there anything on the Firefox support forums?

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ah yes it does seem to be when lots of other apps are open. I'll have a root around and see if it's listed on bugzilla (probably really low priority...) – geocoin Jul 17 '09 at 9:03
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so far found this in the mozilla knowledge base and this in bugzilla

seems it's known but unassigned

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Although this is the 'Correct' answer, I only went and looked after ChrisF suggested it, so i gave him the 'accept' (also, it's a few days before i can accept my own answer...) – geocoin Jul 20 '09 at 15:09
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If this happens, you can get your window back thorugh the Task Manager -> Right Klick on Firefox task and then clicking "Switch To".

This way, at least you get your browser window back. I don't know how to prevent it from happening though.

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or alt-tab as i said in the Q – geocoin Jul 17 '09 at 10:12
right, misread that part – Pascalo Jul 17 '09 at 12:05
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Why not just Alt+Tab to the missing page? Simplest workaround.

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that is the only workaround, but the question was "WHY?" not "how do get around this?" – geocoin Sep 18 '09 at 15:35
The answer to "why?" is that it's clearly a software bug and will be fixed over time. Till then, you just need to live with it :-) – anon Oct 9 '09 at 20:02
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It sure does stifle productivity, disappearing all the time, when going between, say a Word doc and Firefox, or a photo editor and back to web to see how something looks online, but where oh where has Firefox gone? I know it's there, but wish it would act like a normal minimized application and display on the task bar!

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