Navigation buttons like back, home, bookmarks and reload are missing
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- Creator: Chris Ilias
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This article describes how to restore Firefox's default toolbar configuration if the Back button, Forward button, Location bar, or other toolbar items are missing.
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Showing the Navigation Toolbar
You may have the Navigation Toolbar hidden. Click the Firefox
menu, select the sub-menu. If there is not a check mark next to , click on it to put a check mark by it.- If the Alt key to display the Menu bar. menu is not visible, press
If showing the Navigation Toolbar does not restore your missing buttons, continue to the next section.
Restore the default toolbar set
To put the toolbar buttons back into their default places:
- Click the Firefox menu, and then select the sub-menu, then click the item 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 Customize Firefox controls, buttons and 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 Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems.
Reset toolbars and controls
If the above methods fail to restore your toolbar buttons: First, start Firefox's Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode:
Click the menu button , click , select and click in the Restart Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode? dialog.
firefox -safe-mode
You may need to specify the Firefox installation path (e.g. /usr/lib/firefox).
- Check mark Reset toolbars and controls.
- Click
to restart Firefox
The default toolbar buttons should now appear in their default locations.