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what happened to the toolbar

cgruber
cgruber
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I can't see the toolbar or the menu at the bottom of the screen.

I can't see the toolbar or the menu at the bottom of the screen.

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silkphoenix
silkphoenix
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The Menu bar on the top is hidden by default for Windows 7 and Vista. Here's how to show it:

View > Toolbars and CHECK the Menu Bar.

The bottom Status bar was removed in FF 4. You can use this add-on to get it back:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/

archer1960
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Why on earth would the status bar be removed? It's one of the biggest and best defenses against address spoofing.

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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There's a "floating bar" that appears when you mouse-over a hyperlink to show you the URL that hyperlink points to - similar to the old Statusbar display. That "floating bar" usually appears lower-left, but if there is information there the "floating bar" shifts to the lower-right corner. If you have the Add-on bar showing at the bottom of the browser window, the "floating bar" will show immediately above the Add-on bar.

Take a look that this extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/