Hi Dave, if the pair of icons (add bookmark / show bookmarks) is missing, you might try using the Customize feature to look for them in the box with the unused icons. If you find them there, you can drag them back to the toolbar. This article has more information:

Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars

If the buttons are nowhere to be found, at the bottom center of the Customize tab, there is a restore defaults button to return the toolbar layout to its original setup, plus some of your add-on buttons will probably re-add themselves.

Any luck?

And two other notes:

(1) You can also add Bookmarks in a few other ways:

• Ctrl+d
• right-click the page > click the star icon on the top right of the context menu
• If you are showing the bookmarks toolbar and want the bookmark there, click and drag the "circle-i" icon from the left end of the address bar to where you want the bookmark

(2) I'm not sure bookmarking the page will bypass having to log in to the site. That might be a different problem.

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

See also:

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customize-firefox-controls-buttons-and-toolbars
• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/navigation-buttons-missing

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