Do you have the Navigation Toolbar visible and the star to bookmark the current tab and the "Show your bookmarks" button next to it as its drop marker?

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks

Make sure that toolbars like the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible.

• "3-bar" Firefox menu button > Customize > Show/Hide Toolbars
• View > Toolbars
  Tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar
• Right-click empty toolbar area

Open the Customize window and set which toolbar items to display.

• "3-bar" Firefox menu button > Customize

• check that "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is on the Bookmarks Toolbar
• if "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is not on the Bookmarks Toolbar then drag it back from the Customize palette into the Customize window to the Bookmarks Toolbar

• if missing items are in the Customize palette then drag them back from the Customize window on the toolbar
• if you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the Customize palette then click the Restore Defaults button to restore the default toolbar setup

brntorun said

I just bought a laptop with 8.1, and i cant find the bookmark button like the one on windows 7, please dont tell me the bookmark toolbar is the only option

thanks it was the menu bar, just had to find it