You can just set your home page under Options - General. If you don't have an orange Firefox button in the top left corner, then open the Tools menu on the menu bar. From there, click Options. In the Options window that opens, click General at the top left.

• How to set the home page

If you're missing the orange Firefox button in the top left corner, and the Home button on the right edge, reset the toolbars to the default:

1. Right-click an empty area of the tab bar and choose Customize.
2. In the window that opens, click the Restore Default Set button.
3. Click the Done button.

Firefox is supposed to be easy to customise. May be too easy and you accidentally removed the icon.

Right click in any free area of the toolbar, such as where the home icon used to be, and you get the options to customise and you should be able to drag the home icon back

• see Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars
• and How to set the home page
  • Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings

Hi John, thanks for the help, I tried the customise option but there wasn't a homepage icon available to drag, the appearance and contents are different to that shown on the help page

Hi John, I tried the option feature but there is no homepage icon listed in the customise box?

Hi, thanks for the advice, I tried the customise option but there was no homepage icon that I could drag, I also tried the tools/options route you suggested and set default, I now have a firefox start-up page but still no homepage icon or firefox box showing?

Prior to forthcoming changes also see

• Display the Firefox button menu instead of the menu toolbar

Major Changes soon ( Australis )
Also see

• Navigation buttons like back, home, bookmarks and reload are missing

As advance warning or for those finding this thread at a later date note Firefox is likely to change with Version 29. The Firefox button will be replaced with a button on the righthand side

See for instance

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/29.0a2/whatsnew/

Note mention of the word Australis in relation to these changes, and see further articles linked from that page.

Hi rogpauline, Our posts have been crossing.

You have customised Firefox already. I see you have Zen Search whatever that is and a Yahoo modification. You may not even have downloaded Firefox itself from the official Mozilla site it may be a modified version from Yahoo.

Personally I am not sure of the extent of the Yahoo modifcations but maybe that is part of the problem.

1. Try disabling the Yahoo plugin.
   Restart Firefox as that may be necessary for things to fully change.
   Then see if you can get the home icon back.
2. See Remove a toolbar that has taken over your Firefox search or home page
3. You may even need to refer to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
4. An easy alternative is the Firefox Reset, which MAY help but read the article first and bookmark the homepage of any extensions that you may wish to reinstall, before you do the reset (Reset removes Firefox extensions ). However the reset does NOT remove plugins they need to be removed separately
   • Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings
   • Disable or remove Add-ons
   • Also look at this article if you need to manually uninstall any plugin
     Troubleshoot issues with plugins like Flash or Java to fix common Firefox problems_manually-uninstalling-a-plugin

Many thanks for your help, after setting firefox to default several times, I seem to have solved it

Many thanks for your help, after setting firefox default several times I seem to have solved it

Great, thanks for letting us know.