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Lost customization and navigation bar on upgrade

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I lost my navigation bar and it is not on the View menu. Tried reinstalling Firefox but that did not work. Worse, after the reinstall, I cannot customize.

I lost my navigation bar and it is not on the View menu. Tried reinstalling Firefox but that did not work. Worse, after the reinstall, I cannot customize.

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Do you have an extension that moves the Tab bar to the down position?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
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Can you provide a screenshot?

just to add, you can try to right click the space between url input box and search input box and choose customize there, then click reset.

Modified by crislevin

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I don't have a URL input box. That is the problem. Attached is a screenshot

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try left click the icon in the square, or right click on icons in any of the circled area.

Modified by crislevin

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Get a blank customization screen when I right click on the reload, history, and bookmark icons and when I left click Firefox, there is an "enter address bar but I can't move it to the Add-on Bar because the Customize does not open.

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on the blank customization screen, is there a button for "restore defaults"? it should be near the lower left corner.

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Chosen Solution

Do you have an extension that moves the Tab bar to the down position?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
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jackjack said

I lost my navigation bar and it is not on the View menu. Tried reinstalling Firefox but that did not work. Worse, after the reinstall, I cannot customize.

Just running it in Safe Mode fixed all the problems. I didn't do anything in Safe Mode but because the address bar showed in Safe Mode, I closed Firefox and then reloaded it and everything came up the way it was before I upgraded it.