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navigation toolbar is missing in Firefox 5 the whole thing

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Since upgrading to Firefox 5, the entire navigation tool bar is missing. The view navigation is selected but the entire toolbar is missing.

Since upgrading to Firefox 5, the entire navigation tool bar is missing. The view navigation is selected but the entire toolbar is missing.

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The back/forward button, address bar, search all gone, what happen ?

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

  • If items are missing then open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize" or via "Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout"
  • If a missing item is in the toolbar palette then drag it 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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Did all that and it still did not show up. I ended up having to delete everything and start anew and add things back one at a time. I always have to do this whenever Firefox Upgrades, it's a PITA. Why can't they set it up so the third party addons doesn't interfere with the base browser setup.

I notice many addons when removed they don't clean up after themselves and have left over stuff that could interfere with upgrades.

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I have the same problem even with all add-ons disabled and after a re-boot. The FWD-REV Icons are not in the Custom group, not is Location, Refresh and a number of others. They were there and now they are gone.

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Hello

After a lost of Add-On testing I found that if I disabled the FireShot 0.91 Add-On the problem goes away. After disabling FireShot restart FireFox 5.0 (FF). Then select the View/Toolbars/Navigation Toolbar menu. Then select "Custom" and search the Icons, you should once again be able to find FWD/REV, Refresh (recycle), Stop, Home, etc...

Please let me know if this helps your problem, doug@shuck.com

Regards, Doug

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I had same problem before upgrade from FF4 to FF5. I had to disable ColorZilla 2.5.5 in order to fix the problem. Seems that some add-ons just don't play nicely.

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UPDATE

I have been working on this quite a bit and I have found that it may be more related to the sheer number of add-ons install and not so much a specific add-on, even though that possibility still exists.

I have been able to enable 15 over the more popular add-ons and up to that point everything works well. If I add one or two more then the problems shows up again. I would then remove those additional add-ons and restart Firefox 5.0 and the Navigation Toolbar would return to normal operation.

I hope this helps. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon?

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Never mind it was the stop/reload only that was missing and I see they have changed the way it works. I don't like it.

Ilungisiwe ngu jdevlin

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To move the Stop and Reload buttons to their position to the left of the location bar you can use these steps:

  • Open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize" or via "Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout"
  • Drag the Reload and Stop buttons to their previous position to the left of the location bar.
  • Set the order to "Reload - Stop" to get a combined "Reload/Stop" button.
  • Set the order to "Stop - Reload" or separate them otherwise (Space or Separator) to get two distinct buttons.