This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

In this upgraded version, the tabs have gone to the very top, thus obliterated my taskbar: I have no "file," "edit," "view," tools." How do I get them back?

  • 9 replies
  • 43 have this problem
  • 2 views
  • Last reply by sevans

more options

The area to open new tabs is now at the very top, thereby obliterating the taskbar. I have no "file," "edit," "view," tools," etc. How do I get them back? Where did they go?

The area to open new tabs is now at the very top, thereby obliterating the taskbar. I have no "file," "edit," "view," tools," etc. How do I get them back? Where did they go?

Chosen solution

With the orange Firefox button displayed the menu bar is hidden, you can get the menu bar back quite easily. Right-click on a toolbar, then click on the "Menu bar" entry to display it.

Read this answer in context 👍 9

All Replies (9)

more options

Go to View, Toolbars, then uncheck "Tabs on top." Another useless change to "the way things were" by a developer who has his head where the sun doesn't shine.

more options

Chosen Solution

With the orange Firefox button displayed the menu bar is hidden, you can get the menu bar back quite easily. Right-click on a toolbar, then click on the "Menu bar" entry to display it.

more options

TONY E: THANK YOU SO MUCH. I SPENT SEVERAL HOURS TRYING TO GET THAT TOOLBAR BACK. WAS ON THE PHONE WITH AT & T YAHOO MAIL. HE TOLD ME THAT THE INSTALLATION WAS CORRUPT AND TO UNINSTALL/REINSTALL, WHICH I DID--TO NO AVAIL. SO, THANK YOU. THE ORANGE MOZILLA BUTTON IS NOW GONE. DO I NEED IT FOR ANYTHING, AND IF SO, HOW DO I GET IT BACK?

more options

FLAGSTAFF: I THINK YOU MISSED THE POINT. I HAD NO "VIEW' TAB TO CLICK ON. IT'S BACK NOW. TONYE UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU ANYWAY.

more options

The Yahoo toolbar has no "Menu Bar" option. Now what?

more options

All I have is 'Move', 'Size', 'Minimum', 'Maximize' & 'Close' when I right click the orange Firefox icon at the top L of my browser window. There is NO "Menu bar" option at all.

So I have NO way to correct this EXTREMELY annoying problem? I have to say until now I've not had a problem with Firefox, not much anyway. But this is too much and should NOT have happened at all. It's been two days now and no solution.

How do I get back to normal browsing ASAP or do I have to just go back to IE? I hope not!

Thanks for any help. ;o)

more options

awwwwwwwwwwwww sheesh, just when I got all the problems fixed from the LAST UPDATED VERSION. my file, edit, view, history don't have the nice boxes around them as before, bookmarks are GONE...............come on you guys!

more options

OK, I got the toolbar back, FINALLY, (after 2 days), but now how do I get the TASKBAR back??? You know, where START is at!

more options

Plus...Like Joanne1348, R clicking the FF icon does not give me a MENU option. I have (unlike Joanne) options like "reloading tabs." And here I was mentally blaming the 3 yr old for messing up the computer, but really it was a paid adult!