Navigation buttons like back, home, bookmarks and reload are missing
The Navigation Toolbar contains the Back, Forward and other navigation buttons along with the Location Bar and Search Bar. If these or other toolbar items are missing, this article will show you how to restore them.
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The Forward button is only shown when necessary
In old versions of Firefox, the Forward button was always visible. If there wasn't a page to go forward to, the button was grayed out (inactive). Now, instead of showing a Forward button that doesn't do anything when you click it, the Forward button is hidden until you have a page to travel forward to.
Showing the Navigation Toolbar
You may have the Navigation Toolbar hidden.
- Right-clickHold down the Ctrl key while you click on an empty section of the tab stripAt the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click on the menu, select the menu.
- If is not checked, click it to make the Navigation Toolbar visible.
- If showing the Navigation Toolbar does not restore your missing buttons, continue to the next section.
- If showing the Navigation Toolbar does not restore your missing buttons, continue to the next section.
Restoring the default toolbar set
- Right-clickHold down the Ctrl key while you click on an empty section of the tab stripAt the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click on the menu, go down to the menu and select to open the Customize Toolbar window.
- Click
- Click to dismiss the Customize Toolbars window.
The default toolbar buttons should now appear in their default locations. If you would like to rearrange your toolbar items, see How do I customize the toolbars?. If your toolbar buttons are still missing, continue to the next section.
Check for interfering add-ons
An extension or theme may be preventing toolbar items from being displayed. To determine if this is the cause, see Troubleshooting extensions and themes.
Reset toolbars and controls
If the above methods fail to restore your toolbar buttons: First, start Firefox's Safe Mode:
- At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click the menu button, go over to the menu and select . Firefox will start up with the Firefox Safe Mode dialog.At the top of the Firefox window, click on the button ( menu in Windows XP) and then click On the menu bar, click on the menu and select At the top of the Firefox window, click on the menu and select At the top of the Firefox window, click on the menu and select On the menu bar, click on the menu and select At the top of the Firefox window, click on the menu and select . Then in Windows, click , open the list and navigate to the folder. In the Mozilla Firefox folder, select .Then hold down the option key as you restart Firefox.Go to your Terminal and run:
For Windows XP, click the menu and select . Firefox will start up with the Firefox Safe Mode dialog.Note: You can also start Firefox in Safe Mode by holding down the shift key while starting Firefox.holding down the option key while starting Firefox.quitting Firefox and then going to your Terminal and running:firefox -safe-mode
You may need to specify the Firefox installation path (e.g. /usr/lib/firefox-4)firefox -safe-mode
You may need to specify the Firefox installation path (e.g. /usr/lib/firefox-3.5). Firefox will start up with the Firefox Safe Mode dialog.Note: You can also start Firefox in Safe Mode by clicking , selecting (or use the Start Search box in Windows 7 and Vista) and then entering the following in the text field:firefox -safe-mode - Check mark Reset toolbars and controls.
- Click to restart Firefox
The default toolbar buttons should now appear in their default locations.

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