Dissapears from Dock

Over the last couple of days, Safari has been disappearing from the Dock on two of my computers. I can put it in the Dock and then watch it, and in a few seconds it is gone. No POOF, it just vanishes. I've replaced it several times, all with the same result. What the heck?

Hi Patrick.Loughnan-
I would check that Firefox is set to appear at Login. While Firefox is open, get the right click context menu- check 'Options' and make sure 'Open at login' is selected. This should get it to reappear upon each restart.

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