All files now have firefox icon

Not sure why, but for some reason almost every icon on my desktop now has a firefox logo on it, except program executable icons. This includes pdf files, jpg files, folder shortcuts. Also when I open a folder, and change the view to medium icons, every file in that folder, no matter what type shows a firefox logo. These desktop icons were not created in or by firefox and are not website shortcuts. Windows Vista

Try to rebuild the Windows icon cache.
* Open the Task Manager (Shift+Ctrl+ESC)
* In the Process tab, right-click on the Explorer.exe process and select End Process.
* Open the file picker via "File > New Task (Run)" and click the Browse button.
* Type or Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local in the File name field (AppData is a hidden folder).
* Select the file IconCache.db and use Delete in the right-click context menu to delete the file.
* After the IconCache.db has been deleted, start a new explorer.exe process via "File > New Task" to get the desktop and Taskbar back.

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when I try to update an AUR package, I get the error message:
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