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The toolbar with buttons (home, refresh, etc.) has disappeared from the top of my screen. How do I get it back?

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The toolbar with buttons (home, refresh, abc, alignment, bold, etc.) disappeared from the top of my screen. How do I get it back? (I am using Windows XP on a Dell Computer.)

The toolbar with buttons (home, refresh, abc, alignment, bold, etc.) disappeared from the top of my screen. How do I get it back? (I am using Windows XP on a Dell Computer.)

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This whole Firefox 4 situation is screwed. I need to know how to get it gone, like yesterday. I am so angry.

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The solution page told me that someone else had the same problem! There was no solution. How can I get my toolbar with buttons back?

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This was not at all helpful. The solution page told me that someone else had the same problem! There was no solution.

How can I get my toolbar with buttons back?

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If the menu bar is hidden then press the F10 key or hold down the Alt key, that should make the menu bar appear.

  • Go to "View > Toolbars" and check-mark "Menu Bar" with a click if you want to make that permanent

Make sure that all the toolbars like the "Navigation Toolbar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible: "View > Toolbars"

  • If items are missing then open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize" or via "Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout"
  • If a missing item is in the toolbar palette then drag it back from the Customize window on the toolbar
  • If you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar set up.

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cor-el's recommendation to simply go to "view>toolbars" worked. I found the "navigation toolbar" unchecked. I checked it and it immediately reappeared.

am curious as to why this happened...does anyone know why?

tedharris

Modified by tedharris

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To Cor-el It isn't the whole toolbar that's hidden - the home button disappeared when I maximized an Internet page, and now everything is bigger, so all the edges are off-screen. I tried Restore, and it made everything smaller, but the edges still didn't reappear; Size was in light print, which means it's inaccessible. Someone said I could do it through the Control Panel+Something-or-other Resolution, but on my control panel there's only Screen Resolution, and that wasn't it. (I feel such an ignoramus!)I use Windows 2007/Vista Ultimate and Mozilla Firefox.

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If the screen is still maximized then you first need to remove that setting.
You can open the system menu via Alt+Space if the controls on the title bar are hidden.

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I don't even have view, or the rest of that menu. This is not an answer.

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You can press F10 or tap the Alt key to bring up the "Menu Bar" temporarily if the Menu Bar is hidden.