Do you still have the Navigation Toolbar visible? *Firefox menu button > Options *View > Toolbars (press F10 to display the menu bar) *Right-click empty toolbar area Use Toolbar Layout (Customize) to open the Customize window and set which toolbar items to display. *if missing items are in the toolbar palette then drag them 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 setup You can check for problems caused by a corrupted localstore.rdf file if the above didn't help. *http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf