How to restore Firefox toolbar
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If your Firefox toolbar is gone, there is a way to restore it. If you see no backward / forward / home buttons and the URL-bar is missing, it means that your toolbar is now hidden or switched off. But don't panic, there's an easy way to restore default Firefox toolbar settings.
Restoring Firefox toolbar is easy
There's a couple of ways you can restore Firefox toolbar:
- Sometimes you just accidentally switch a Toolbar off. To switch it on again, go to the View menu » Toolbars and select the toolbars you want to see.
- If your main toolbar is still present, you can quickly restore any of the missing toolbars by selecting the View menu and clicking the Toolbars › Customize option. Here you can restore / reset the default toolbar set by clicking the Restore Default Set at the window bottom. Click Done when finished. Your default set of toolbars will be restored, make sure to drag-and-drop any of the elements you want to see on the toolbar again if they are gone.
- If your Firefox window opens in a frame browser with no menu bar and no buttons at all, the only way to restore Firefox toolbar is to press the Alt key while your window is active. The menu options will appear and first menu option will be automatically highlighted for you.
Please watch the video attached for demonstration.
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I forgot. You have to right click on "Menu Bar" after clicking "Alt" key. It will get the menu bar back for firefox.
Just pressing "Alt" worked to restore my toolbar. Thanks.
Thanks for telling me how restore tool bar on my firefox! You saved my life because my brother wanted to kill me!
Pressing the "alt" key had no effect at all. Am I missing something besides my tool bar?
Alt makes the Menu Bar to reappear. Maybe other bar than menu bar is gone for you? In that case simply right-click the window frame of Firefox and select bars you want to appear. It won't work in Firefox 3 thou, only newer versions support this.
What does this say about the kind of moron programmers who would even build a feature like this into a browser in the first place? What is it with Americans?
How hard is it to understand the idea of not designing a feature the user can't see how to reverse? Duh....
Even if I restore the toolbars as explained here, next time I start Firefox everything is missing again :(
I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading.Thanks for nice info. It’s useful for me. Can you give me some more information with details nbs bye
I tried and tried for hours to do what you managed to accomplish in one short audio clip. Thank You !!!
PRESS ALT THEN GO TO VIEW AND TOOLBAR AND CHECK MENU BAR AND IT SHOULD STAY UP FOR YOU!
but the tool bar doesn't stay..I have to keep hitting ALT Please help me.
Yes, the bar will only stay when you select it to be active in the View > Toolbars menu. Good luck Susie!
thank you v much from Riyadh . i asked this question on google and it gives me your site thanks again
Thank You very much for the advice 'ALT'key
Thank you :-)
I LOVE ALT....thanks!
TYVM
THANK YOU
Thanks, I had to go the Alt route. A prob. remains though. Everything appears except my "back/forward" buttons. The extreme left of the row says "file". I've hit restore default, and Done, but still no back/forward buttons. Any theories on what to do next?...Thanks much. Ray
Go to view > toolbars > customize and add your buttons as needed.
Aol has hi-jacked my mozilla and installed their home page, there is no toolbar. How do I get rid of it and get Mozilla's back?
Thank you!
Voila' Thanks much!
ALT key -> Only that was it to restore my main menu toolbar ! :-)
Why doesn't Firefox make it more intuitive to restore the main toolbar ??
It took me hours.... !!
And it is so easy, within a second....!
It could be so much more userfriendly to make this "restore toolbar" function availabe with a right or left mouse click on the top toolbar ! :-))) PLEASE !!!
Thanks ! Much apreciated !! :-)
John
I pressed the Alt key and it did not correct the problem . Now what?
Great! That was a stumper... Thanks a lot!
Pretty good work it for me too is = ALT
The Alt key did not work for me
It did work for me pretty good, actually.
Wow...This has aggravated me for six months. ALL HAIL THE ALT KEY.
PRESS THE ALT KEY SOLVES ALL OUR PROBLEMS...
you saved the day thanks
looked online a few times and no one could give me the ALT key answer great stuff, thank you
The alt key! That's all? My goodness! Thank you!!!!
What happens when the Menubar is missing also, you basically have just a frame showing and no addressbar, no menubar, and no buttons. Do I need to go to the ini file to turn something on?
just press alt and click views then toolbars
man* lol
holy crap mon i was so confused all day (thanks to guy who said press ALT)
OMG that was simple..Thank you! Had the same prob!
how easy was that!
press the alt key
thanku worked straight away
silly ole me ! simple .
THANK YOU
Thank you so much that fixed my problem...
that was really easy, its been problems for days. thanks
You may have played around with Firefox buttons and toolbars to suddenly find yourself lost and trapped. There are no backward / forward / home buttons and the URL-bar is missing!
Don't panic, there's an easy way to restore default Firefox toolbar settings. To do so click View > Toolbars > Customize. Now click the Reset Default Set button to have your toolbar restored. Click Done.
Firefox toolbar buttons will now appear in their default positions.
Thank you!
WHAT IF THERE IS NO VIEW BUTTON SHOWING FOR ME TO CLICK ON TO GET TO TOOLBARS THEN CUSTOMIZE ETC ETC...
What happens if your firefox opens in a frame browser, with no menu bar, no address bar and no buttons to choose? Do i need to go to the ini file to turn on something?