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orange button is gone f10 does not work

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Today my orange button disappeared and I am unable to turn it back on again, Using f10 does not allow me to reactivate it and when I switch tabs f10 turns itself off.

Today my orange button disappeared and I am unable to turn it back on again, Using f10 does not allow me to reactivate it and when I switch tabs f10 turns itself off.

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F10 toggles the menu bar off or on but if you've upgraded to FF29, this no longer includes the orange button.

To permanently get your menu bar ON, right-click an empty space to the right of your tabs and select from the drop-down list instead of using F10.

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

If you are in full screen mode then hover the mouse to the top of the screen to make the Navigation Toolbar and Tab bar appear.
Click the Maximize button (top right corner of the Navigation Toolbar) to leave full screen mode or right-click empty space on a toolbar and choose "Exit Full Screen Mode" or press the F11 key.


Firefox 29 and later versions have the Australis interface that looks different than the user interface in Firefox 28 and older versions.

  • With the Australis interface the orange Firefox menu button has been replaced by the three bar Menu button at the far right end of the Navigation Toolbar
    A consequence of this new menu button is that you no longer can hide the Navigation Toolbar
  • There is a star like button to the right end of the search bar on the Navigation Toolbar to bookmark the current web page and a "Show your bookmarks" button next to it to open the Bookmarks in a drop down menu
  • It is still possible to have the menu bar visible via the right-click context menu on the toolbars to have menus like the the Bookmarks menu

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