Firefox and the speaker phone icon, bug?

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I am not sure if this KDE or Firefox bug.

  1. Correct behavior for Firefox Icon in the KDE task manager (in the main panel). When a Firefox is playing video/audio the Firefox Icon in the KDE task manger is displayed with speaker mini-icon.
    However, when video/audio is stopped, the icon will revert to the normal Firefox icon.

  2. Current behavior for Firefox Icon in the KDE task manager (in the main panel). When a Firefox is playing video/audio the Firefox Icon in the KDE task manger is display with speaker mini-icon.
    However, when video/audio is stopped, the Firefox icon in the KDE task manger is displayed with speaker mini-icon.

Is it a bug in Firefox or KDE Plasma?

Edit

Name            : firefox
Version         : 139.0.4-1
Description     : Fast, Private & Safe Web Browser
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Licenses        : MPL-2.0
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : alsa-lib  at-spi2-core  bash  cairo  dbus  ffmpeg  fontconfig  freetype2  gcc-libs  gdk-pixbuf2  glib2  glibc  gtk3  hicolor-icon-theme  libpulse  libx11  libxcb  libxcomposite  libxdamage  libxext  libxfixes  libxrandr  libxss  libxt
                  mime-types  nspr  nss  pango  ttf-font
Optional Deps   : hunspell-en_US: Spell checking, American English
                  libnotify: Notification integration [installed]
                  networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks [installed]
                  speech-dispatcher: Text-to-Speech [installed]
                  xdg-desktop-portal: Screensharing with Wayland [installed]
Required By     : firefox-extension-arch-search
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 260.74 MiB
Packager        : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Tue 10 Jun 2025 12:18:33 AM CDT
Install Date    : Tue 10 Jun 2025 08:54:08 PM CDT
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature
Backup Files    : None
Extended Data   : pkgtype=pkg
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Can’t replicate that behavior.
On my system the Icon changes when it’s playing accordingly. If I’m playing a video, it does show the mini speaker icon, when I stop or pause the video, it changes to the default icon without the mini speaker.

edit: system is fully updated and Firefox is on version 139.0.4

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Same here - cannot replicate.

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Me three. It’s working correctly here.

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Solved:
I had an open pinned tab, shopping for parts for my Honda Ridgeline Truck.
For unknown reasons, when this tab/URL is open for https://www.hondapartsnow.com/online/shopping/cart?

The Firefox icon with the speaker is displayed even if there is no audio played by the web server at www.hondapartsnow.com

Closing the tab, Firefox icon goes to behave normaly.

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