In Firefox, you can right click on the forward or back buttons to see the list of recent pages and jump back and forth.

Thanx to dynamite for the helpful reply. Sinc Im new to FF, I have been going through the "getting started" tab many times searching vainly for the answer. So my question here.. why the hell this information isnt found anywhere in the "getting started" page ?? Maybe it is time it should be inserted somewhere ?

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The getting started page/video are meant to focus on major features like App tabs and Personas. Details like forward/back buttons are documented in other knowledge base articles like Common questions after upgrading from Firefox 3.6.

The arrow to open the tab history of the Back and Forward buttons has been removed in Firefox 4 and later.

Use one of these methods to open the tab history list:

• Right click on the Back or Forward button
• Hold down the left mouse button on the enabled Back or Forward button until the list opens

You can look at this extension:

• Backward Forward History Dropdown: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforedrop/