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The URL does not show in my main toolbar. It does show in the bookmark toolbar, but I prefer not to use it. How do I fix this problem?

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In trying to get rid of Bing, I somehow lost the ability to see the URL in my main search field. I can see the urls in my bookmarks toolbar if I have selected a site from my bookmarks, but when I click my home-page button, the url for google, my home page, does not show up in either the main toolbar or the bookmark toolbar.


I did get rid of Bing, but I have not been able to fix the toolbar.

I reset keyword.url to see if it would fix the problem, but it did not.
In trying to get rid of Bing, I somehow lost the ability to see the URL in my main search field. I can see the urls in my bookmarks toolbar if I have selected a site from my bookmarks, but when I click my home-page button, the url for google, my home page, does not show up in either the main toolbar or the bookmark toolbar. I did get rid of Bing, but I have not been able to fix the toolbar. I reset keyword.url to see if it would fix the problem, but it did not.

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Did you remove any files in the Firefox profile folder?


Do you still see the location bar?

See also:

Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).


You can create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.

See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":

If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.

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