Customize navigation buttons like back, home, bookmarks and reload

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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.

Default Navigation toolbar

When you first run Firefox, the Navigation toolbar contains the following items:

Windows 7 and Vista

Icon Description
back_forward_vista.png Go back to the previous page, or forward to the next page in history
reload_vista.png Reload the current page
stop_vista.png Stop loading the current page
home_vista.png Open your home page(s)



Windows XP

Icon Description
back_forward_xp.png Go back to the previous page, or forward to the next page in history
reload_xp.png Reload the current page
stop_xp.png Stop loading the current page
home_xp.png Open your home page(s)
Icon Description
back_forward_icon_mac.png Go back to the previous page, or forward to the next page in history
reload_icon_mac.png Reload the current page
stop_icon_mac.png Stop loading the current page
home_icon_mac.png Open your home page(s)
Icon Description
back_icon_linux.png Go back to the previous page in history
forward_icon_linux.png Go or forward to the next page in history
reload_icon_linux.png Reload the current page
stop_icon_linux.png Stop loading the current page
home_icon_linux.png Open your home page(s)

Location and Search tools

Display Description
The image "location_bar_xp.PNG" does not exist.fx3-mac-locationbar.pnglocation_bar_linux.png 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 EnterReturn.
The image "search_bar_xp.PNG" does not exist.fx3-mac-searchbar-item.pngsearch_bar_linux.png 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 EnterReturn.

Customizing the toolbar

You can customize the Navigation toolbar to add any of the following items:

Windows 7 and Vista

Icon Description
Toolbar_separator.png A separator to add a visual separation between a group of icons
print_vista.png Print the current page
downloads_vista.png Display of the progress of current downloads through the Downloads Manager
history_vista.png Display the pages you've viewed recently in the History sidebar
bookmarks_vista.png Display your bookmarks in the Bookmarks sidebar
new_tab_vista.png Open a new browsing tab
new_window_vista.png Open a new browsing window
cut_vista.png Cut
copy_vista.png Copy
paste_vista.png Paste
1ac02852251f68821c5828d6ae805417-1258684309-723-1.png (Firefox 3.6) Make the Firefox window full-screen



Windows XP

Icon Description
Toolbar_separator.png A separator to add a visual separation between a group of icons
print_xp.png Print the current page
downloads_xp.png Display of the progress of current downloads through the Downloads Manager
history_xp.png Display the pages you've viewed recently in the History sidebar
bookmarks_xp.png Display your bookmarks in the Bookmarks sidebar
new_tab_xp.png Open a new browsing tab
new_window_xp.png Open a new browsing window
cut_xp.png Cut
copy_xp.png Copy
paste_xp.png Paste
1ac02852251f68821c5828d6ae805417-1258684309-723-2.png (Firefox 3.6) Make the Firefox window full-screen
Icon Description
Toolbar_separator.png A separator to add a visual separation between a group of icons
print_icon_mac.png Print the current page
downloads_icon_mac.png Display of the progress of current downloads through the Downloads Manager
history_icon_mac.png Display the pages you've viewed recently in the History sidebar
bookmarks_icon_mac.png Display your bookmarks in the Bookmarks sidebar
new_tab_icon_mac.png Open a new browsing tab
new_window_icon_mac.png Open a new browsing window
cut_icon_mac.png Cut
copy_icon_mac.png Copy
paste_icon_mac.png Paste
1ac02852251f68821c5828d6ae805417-1258684309-723-3.png (Firefox 3.6) Make the Firefox window full-screen
Icon Description
Toolbar_separator.png A separator to add a visual separation between a group of icons
print_icon_linux.png Print the current page
downloads_icon_linux.png Display of the progress of current downloads through the Downloads Manager
history_icon_linux.png Display the pages you've viewed recently in the History sidebar
bookmarks_icon_linux.png Display your bookmarks in the Bookmarks sidebar
new_tab_icon_linux.png Open a new browsing tab
new_window_icon_linux.png Open a new browsing window
cut_icon_linux.png Cut
copy_icon_linux.png Copy
paste_icon_linux.png Paste
1ac02852251f68821c5828d6ae805417-1258685498-848-1.png (Firefox 3.6) Make the Firefox window full-screen


Spacing the toolbar icons

You can also add spacing in the toolbar, if desired.

Icon Description
firefox-toolbar-flexiblespace.png You can define flexible space of a predefined width.
firefox-toolbar-space.png This spacing tool adapts its width depending on the items in your Navigation bar.