In Firefox 3.6 and later on Windows you can hide the "Menu Bar" via "View > Toolbars" or via the right-click context menu on a toolbar.

Press F10 or press and hold the Alt key down to bring up the "Menu Bar" temporarily.

Go to "View > Toolbars" or right-click the "Menu Bar" or press Alt+V T to select which toolbars to show or hide (click on an entry to toggle the state).

See also Restore the Menu bar in Firefox and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization

My menu bar is back. Thank You VERY much. I appreciate the QUICK and accurate information.

Raybo57.

Hey Guys, I Have tried ALL day to try and repair the menu bar I lost this morning. Was missing the ( file edit view history bookmarks tools help) bar and you suggested pressing Alt+V and it was fixed !! Can't thank the support enough. fogfrank

I have just installed Firefox 4 into Debian Sid. The Stop button is missing. Alt-V temporarily reveals a greyed-out 'Stop' but that disappears on the next attempt to use 'View'. There appears to be no way of stopping unresponsive sites particularly those which have been 'Slashdotted', short of killing the Firefox pid. Very irritating!

Edit - I found the missing buttons hidden under the URL and search edit fields. Now I just need to find out how to permanently resize these fields to make them smaller.

Firefox 4.0 has a combined Reload and Stop button that appears at the far right of the location bar.

• Open the "View > Toolbars > Customize" window to move them out of the location bar.
• Move the Reload and Stop buttons to their previous position at the left of the location bar.
• Set the order to "Reload - Stop" to get a combined "Reload/Stop" button.
• Set the order to "Stop - Reload" or separate them otherwise to get two distinct buttons.