My Dock icons aren't showing

Just upgraded to Mavericks did the the whole shebang basically but now my application icons with in my dock aren't showing. The ones that are would be Finder, Calender, Cyberduck and two other folders i have in there. I don't know why my programs there were there aren't there anymore. any help would be greatful

May be worth trying to reset the dock completely.
Go to '/[your username]/Library/Preferences' and remove 'com.apple.dock.db' and 'com.apple.dock.plist'
Then log out and log back in again (or just restart) and your dock should be rebuilt
Bear in mind that by doing this, it will reset the settings of your dock back to original default settings. You should then be able to change them back.

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Make sure that Firefox gets installed properly.
Open the DMG file and drag to Firefox program to the application folder on your hard drive.
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See [[Installing Firefox on Mac]]

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when I am opening any application including safari, these icons are not showing in dock, how to get open applications in my dock?

This could be a plist corruption problem, but I'm not sure.
Sometimes, the preference list files get corrupted. You can usually just remove them and they'll get re-created. This may require you to reset certain settings. A notable exception to this is the Mail plist which actually stores the Library structure of your email accounts. Deleting the Mail plist will definitely cause lots of problems, but is recoverable.
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Hi,
great news. Glad to be of help.
MacUpdate and VersionTracker http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ are my main resources for software.
Have Fun
Stefan

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I'm having a problem where the dock is showing the dock as an application on the dock. I tried dragging the dock icon off the dock, reseting, and killall Dock. None of them worked.
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I can't really understand how that could be. could you post a screenshot please? upload a screenshot to some image hosting site and provide a link. also, what did you reset? delete the file homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist and log out/in. your dock, spaces and exposé will be reset to the defaults.

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