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How do I permanently hide the Bookmarks Toolbar?

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Zyst
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Sometime around the beginning of this month, Firefox popped up my Bookmarks Toolbar. It had been hidden ever since. I thought it was an addon that I recently installed doing this, but when I disabled all of the addons I had just installed in the past couple of days, the issue remains.

Everytime I start firefox, my bookmarks toolbar is open. I don't use it, because I customized firefox to put my bookmarks with my navigation toolbar. I right click on the bar and select to hide it, but it keeps coming back upon restart. I can avoid the problem by moving everything from the Navigation toolbar onto the Bookmarks toolbar and using the Bookmarks toolbar instead, but I can't solve the problem. I just reinstalled Firefox as I upgraded to Windows 8 (from Windows 7), and the issue persisted.

If this is supposed to be a new feature of Firefox, it's annoying.

Here are my addons in the event that it helps identify the issue: Adblock Plus 2.1.1 Load Tabs Progressively 1.6.1 NoScript 2.4.8 QuickDrag 2.1.3.23 Reddit Enhancement Suite 4.1.2 Scriptish 0.1.7 Smartest Bookmarks Bar 1.1 Snap Links Plus 2.2.1 Stylish 1.2.6 YTshowRatings 1.0.4

Sometime around the beginning of this month, Firefox popped up my Bookmarks Toolbar. It had been hidden ever since. I thought it was an addon that I recently installed doing this, but when I disabled all of the addons I had just installed in the past couple of days, the issue remains. Everytime I start firefox, my bookmarks toolbar is open. I don't use it, because I customized firefox to put my bookmarks with my navigation toolbar. I right click on the bar and select to hide it, but it keeps coming back upon restart. I can avoid the problem by moving everything from the Navigation toolbar onto the Bookmarks toolbar and using the Bookmarks toolbar instead, but I can't solve the problem. I just reinstalled Firefox as I upgraded to Windows 8 (from Windows 7), and the issue persisted. If this is supposed to be a new feature of Firefox, it's annoying. Here are my addons in the event that it helps identify the issue: Adblock Plus 2.1.1 Load Tabs Progressively 1.6.1 NoScript 2.4.8 QuickDrag 2.1.3.23 Reddit Enhancement Suite 4.1.2 Scriptish 0.1.7 Smartest Bookmarks Bar 1.1 Snap Links Plus 2.2.1 Stylish 1.2.6 YTshowRatings 1.0.4

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No, that isn't a new feature in Firefox. Sounds more like something caused by an addon which changed.

This extension was updated on July 7 - could that have been when your problem started?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smartest-bookmarks-bar/versions/

http://smartestbookmarksbar.com/node/38

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dumdidadida
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Hi,

You can try to Reset toolbars and controls: and Make Changes and Restart in the Safe Mode start screen. If the issue persists, please see this.

the-edmeister
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No, that isn't a new feature in Firefox. Sounds more like something caused by an addon which changed.

This extension was updated on July 7 - could that have been when your problem started?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smartest-bookmarks-bar/versions/

http://smartestbookmarksbar.com/node/38

Zyst
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I think the-edmeister is onto it. It's likely Smartest Bookmarks Bar. Didn't realize it had updated, and that sounds like the time I started having issues. I'll see what I can do, probably use an older version of it.

Thanks!