hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems

It is probably not relevant to your immediate problem but your extension Smartest Bookmarks Bar 1.11 seems to have died. Googling it shows all sorts of dangerous links. Unless you know exactly what it is and what you use it for, you should remove it.

I found the culprit. It was the "Tab Mix Lite" plugin that was causing the issue. I went through and disabled every plugin till I was able to close my tabs again. The "Smartest Bookmarks Bar" is a fantastic quick link bookmarking plugin that puts a lot of my most used sites easy to get to. I love this plugin and it's working great. :) Thanks for all your help.

For future reference you can reduce individual bookmarks to icons only by right clicking on them and under properties delete the name.

For other readers, if you are not familiar with the icon you can abbreviate the name as far as you like, a great space saver. You can also establish folders on the Bookmarks Toolbar to group similar sites. Also not everyone seems to know that the Bookmarks Toolbar spills down the right side of the screen, accessed via the chevrons/arrowheads at the end of the Toolbar.

You can also use code in userChrome.css to hide the text or the icons.

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#PlacesToolbarItems > .bookmark-item:not([container]) > .toolbarbutton-text{display:none !important}
#PlacesToolbarItems > .bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon {display:none!important}

The customization files userChrome.css (user interface) and userContent.css (websites) are located in the chrome folder in the Firefox profile folder.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration

You can use this button to go to the currently used Firefox profile folder:

• Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)

• Create the chrome folder (lowercase) in the <xxxxxxxx>.default profile folder if this folder doesn't exist
• Use a plain text editor like Notepad to create a (new) userChrome.css file in this folder (the names are case sensitive)
• Paste the code in the userChrome.css file in the editor window and make sure that the userChrome.css file starts with the default @namespace line
• Make sure that you select "All files" and not "Text files" when you save the file via "Save file as" in the text editor as userChrome.css. Otherwise Windows may add a hidden .txt file extension and you end up with a not working userChrome.css.txt file

BTW, Update your Shockwave Flash v14. http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

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