The search bar has disappeared from the right side of the address bar. How do I replace it?
The reinstatement instructions provided for previous query two years ago are apparently not applicable to my Mac OS X 10.6.8. Help, please. I need to see my search bar to the right of the address/location bar. Thank you.
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Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Plugin that detects installed Citrix Online products (visit www.citrixonline.com).
- The Google Earth Plugin allows you to view 3D imagery and terrain in your web browser.
- Displays Java applet content, or a placeholder if Java is not installed.
- CIG Download
- Picasa plugin.
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Shockwave Flash 32.0 r0
- 5.1.41212.0
- iPhoto6
Application
- Firefox 48.0.2
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0
- Support URL: https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/48.0.2/Darwin/en-US/
Extensions
- BookWithMatrix 1.0.5 (peter@bookwithmatrix.com)
- Firefox Hello 1.4.4 (loop@mozilla.org)
- Multi-process staged rollout 1.1 (e10srollout@mozilla.org)
- Pocket 1.0.4 (firefox@getpocket.com)
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription:
- adapterDeviceID: 0x68a1
- adapterDrivers:
- adapterRAM:
- adapterVendorID: 0x1002
- driverDate:
- driverVersion:
- info: {u'AzureCanvasAccelerated': 0, u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'skia', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'none', u'AzureContentBackend': u'skia'}
- numAcceleratedWindows: 1
- numTotalWindows: 1
- supportsHardwareH264: No
- webglRenderer: ATI Technologies Inc. -- ATI Radeon HD 5750 OpenGL Engine
- windowLayerManagerRemote: True
- windowLayerManagerType: OpenGL
Modified Preferences
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
Chosen Solution
Please see Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars.
Question owner
I am grateful, Wesley. Although I had been directed to the site you suggested, I had not thought to click "restore defaults," which immediately restored my search bar to its proper place. So simple but not so obvious to us Mac users over 60. Many thanks, Irene
Note that you may have accidentally removed button(s) from the Navigation Toolbar.
If you right-click a toolbar item in normal (non-customize) mode then you can remove this item from the toolbar.
- "Remove from Toolbar" will remove this item from the Navigation Toolbar and moves it to the Customize palette ("3-bar" Firefox menu button -> Customize)
- "Move to Menu" will move this item to the "3-bar" Firefox menu button drop-down list
- "Move to Toolbar" in the "3-bar" Firefox menu button drop-down list will move this item to the toolbar