The Navigation toolbar contains the tools used to navigate to websites, as well as the Location bar and Search bar.
If you find that one of the items below is missing from your toolbar, see the Toolbar items missing article to restore them.
Firefox on Linux uses icons from your system theme. The icons shown below might not match what you see when using Firefox on Linux systems.
When you first run Firefox, the Navigation toolbar contains the following items:
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Go back to the previous page, or forward to the next page in history (Forward button is hidden when inactive)
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac3"
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Reload the current page if it's not loading
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Win4"
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Stop loading the current page while it's loading
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac5"
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Open your home page(s)
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac6"
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Show all your bookmarks
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Go back to the previous page in history
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alt="Forward Lin"
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Go forward to the next page in history (button is hidden when inactive)
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac3"
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Reload the current page if it's not loading
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Win4"
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Stop loading the current page while it's loading
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Lin5"
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Open your home page(s)
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Description
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Go back to the previous page, or forward to the next page in history
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Reload the current page
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alt="stop_icon_mac.png"
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Stop loading the current page
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alt="home_icon_mac.png"
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Open your home page(s)
Display
Description
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Win7"
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac7"
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In the Location bar , the location of the current Web page is displayed. To go to a new Web page, enter a URL and press Enter Return .
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Lin8"
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In the Search bar , you can search the Web using the search engine of your choice. To search for a new term, enter your text string in the Search bar and press Enter Return .
You can customize the Navigation toolbar to add any of the following items (for more information, see Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars ):
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Description
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Print the current page
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Indicates the current page loading status
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac11"
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Display of the progress of current downloads through the Downloads Manager
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac12"
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Display the pages you've viewed recently in the History sidebar
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac13"
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Display your bookmarks in the Bookmarks sidebar
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Open a new browsing window
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alt="Navigation Toolbar - Mac15"
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Cut
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Copy
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Paste
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Make the Firefox window full-screen
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Zoom out or in the current page
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Setup Sync or Sync now depending on your Sync connect status
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Subscribe to a RSS feed in the current page
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Enter the Tab Groups view
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Description
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Print the current page
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Display of the progress of current downloads through the Downloads Manager
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Display the pages you've viewed recently in the History sidebar
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Display your bookmarks in the Bookmarks sidebar
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Open a new browsing tab
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Open a new browsing window
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Cut
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Copy
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Paste
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Make the Firefox window full-screen
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Description
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Print the current page
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Display of the progress of current downloads through the Downloads Manager
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Display the pages you've viewed recently in the History sidebar
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Display your bookmarks in the Bookmarks sidebar
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Open a new browsing tab
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Open a new browsing window
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Cut
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alt="copy_icon_linux.png"
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Copy
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Paste
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Make the Firefox window full-screen
You can also add separations or spacing in the toolbar, if desired.
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Description
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A separator to add a visual separation between a group of icons
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This spacing tool adapts its width depending on the items in your Navigation bar.
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You can define a space of a predefined width.
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