2 firefox profiles with each a separate icon on the taskbar

[swarfendor437]

Hi and welcome.

I am wondering if it is anything to do with this:

Canonical Redirect installs Firefox Snap

I had installed the apt version of Firefox on Zorin 18. Today, Firefox takes a long time to open, and I find that it looks slightly different, and the taskbar pin has changed. Checking the Help > About dialog shows that the snap version (canonical-002) has suddenly taken over; causing havoc with extensions (they have essentially been reset), and is much slower to startup. I'm not a newbie to computers. I've been an IT consultant for 25+ years, and have used Linux on and off (mostly on, recent…