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Number on Firefox Icon

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The Firefox icon on my taskbar has a great big green number 1 plonked on it. It doesn't seem to relate to the number of windows I have open or the processes running. It's there even when Firefox is closed. I thought it might be messages but I can't find those either. Its driving me nuts can you please tell me how to get rid of it? I'm running it in Ubuntu on a laptop.

The Firefox icon on my taskbar has a great big green number 1 plonked on it. It doesn't seem to relate to the number of windows I have open or the processes running. It's there even when Firefox is closed. I thought it might be messages but I can't find those either. Its driving me nuts can you please tell me how to get rid of it? I'm running it in Ubuntu on a laptop.

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It's a notification, open the notifications list by clicking the time in the status bar (Super+V) and clear all notifications.

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It's a notification, open the notifications list by clicking the time in the status bar (Super+V) and clear all notifications.

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Thank you! I'm an idiot, problem solved, cheers!