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		How the Firefox desktop launcher works (support.mozilla.org)
		3 points by josephcsible 28 days ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

josephcsible 28 days ago [–]

tl;dr: starting with Firefox 145, instead of there being a shortcut to it on your desktop, it will drop a .exe file there, so that if your desktop gets copied to a new computer, it can automatically reinstall Firefox instead of just being a broken shortcut.

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