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cannot get awesome bar

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cocksparow
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i have reinstalled windows 7 and i cannot get the firefox home page with the awesome bar. i have reinstalled firefox twice and get the old page . i have looked through the help pages but no help. can you please assist as my laptop has it and my pc does not annoying thanks

i have reinstalled windows 7 and i cannot get the firefox home page with the awesome bar. i have reinstalled firefox twice and get the old page . i have looked through the help pages but no help. can you please assist as my laptop has it and my pc does not annoying thanks

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Do you mean the location bar on the Navigation Toolbar or a web page with a search bar like the about:home page?

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in full screen mode (press F11 or Fn + F11 to toggle; Mac: command+Shift+F).

Make sure that toolbars like the "Navigation Toolbar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible:

  • Firefox > Options
  • "View > Toolbars"

Open the Customize window to set which toolbar items to display:

  • View > Toolbars > Customize
  • Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout
  • Check that the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is on the Bookmarks Toolbar
  • If the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is not on the Bookmarks Toolbar then drag it back from the toolbar palette in the customize window to the Bookmarks Toolbar
  • If missing items are in the toolbar palette then drag them back from the Customize window on the toolbar
  • If you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar set up
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Andrew
Andrew
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Please see Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars

cor-el
cor-el
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Do you mean the location bar on the Navigation Toolbar or a web page with a search bar like the about:home page?

Make sure that you do not run Firefox in full screen mode (press F11 or Fn + F11 to toggle; Mac: command+Shift+F).

Make sure that toolbars like the "Navigation Toolbar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible:

  • Firefox > Options
  • "View > Toolbars"

Open the Customize window to set which toolbar items to display:

  • View > Toolbars > Customize
  • Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout
  • Check that the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is on the Bookmarks Toolbar
  • If the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is not on the Bookmarks Toolbar then drag it back from the toolbar palette in the customize window to the Bookmarks Toolbar
  • If missing items are in the toolbar palette then drag them back from the Customize window on the toolbar
  • If you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar set up