You can right-click the Bookmarks Toolbar to open its context menu, the "Bookmarks Toolbar" sub menu has three choices:

• "Always Show", "Only Show on New Tab", "Never Show"

"Only Show on New Tab" applies only to the Firefox Home page (about:newtab and about:home) and won't work if the new tab page is not set to the default Firefox Home screen.

• about:config => browser.toolbars.bookmarks.visibility = [newtab|always|never]
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

The "Ctrl+Shift+B" shortcut toggles between "always" and "never" and doesn't allow to select the "newtab" setting, so you need the context menu to select "newtab".

cor-el Thanks, that is a convenient way of setting "Only Show on New Tab" but the problem remains that, when I use Ctrl-Shift-B I lose that setting, Alan.

cor-el "The "Ctrl+Shift+B" shortcut toggles between "always" and "never" and doesn't allow to select the "newtab" setting, so you need the context menu to select "newtab"." Yes, that's what I don't like, Alan.

Hi Alan,

From your question, I understand that you are looking for a way to temporarily display the Bookmarks Toolbar without changing its behavior persistently. While I don't think there is such a way, you can use the Bookmarks Sidebar instead, pressing Ctrl+B. It also lets you view and manage your tabs. Hope that helps!

Denys Thanks for your reply. “I understand that you are looking for a way to temporarily display the Bookmarks Toolbar without changing its behaviour persistently” – Correct. The bookmarks I use the most are the toolbar bookmarks, and I want them to be shown when I open a new tab. It would also be convenient to bring them up using Ctrl-Shift-B, but only if I could do that without trashing my new tabs setting. I would like the operability of Firefox to change so I can do so. I have my toolbar bookmarks on display at the top of my bookmark sidebar so I can reach them fairly quickly using Ctrl-B, Alan.