# My bookmarks toolbar in Firefox went away **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 2, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bookmarks-toolbar-in-firefox-went-away/329024 "2005-11-02T03:22:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bookmarks-toolbar-in-firefox-went-away/329024/1 "2005-11-02T03:22:42Z")
Well, not realyl gone, but it decided it wanted to take them out of the bar and just put a little arrow I can click on to bring up a little window with them in it. I can seem to move them back to the toolbar. What happened and how do I get them back? Also, related Firefox question: what is the extension that lets me actually make use of the mouse-over preview function on the boards? I only get about 1/5 of what I get in IE. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bookmarks-toolbar-in-firefox-went-away/329024/2 "2005-11-02T03:36:04Z")
Just updated to version 1.0.7 did ya? Mine did the same thing, it’s a known bug. The only option I could find is to create a new profile ☹ . They’re supposed to be releasing a completely new rebuild this month. I read somewhere it will update now without a reinstall, so it’s not supposed to wreck profiles. Pissed me off royally I had all my bookmarklets [@](http://www.bookmarklets.com/tools/categor.html) [@](http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/collection.asp)[@](http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/) (little JavaScript applications that do really cool things) I miss them. I’m waiting for the new build before I fix things for the third time! ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bookmarks-toolbar-in-firefox-went-away/329024/3 "2005-11-02T20:06:46Z")
The extension to display the popup is at [http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/\_popupalt.html.en](http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_popupalt.html.en) ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bookmarks-toolbar-in-firefox-went-away/329024/4 "2005-11-03T14:57:04Z")
I’m having the same problem with the bookmarks toolbar. A quick TEMPORARY fix is to go to View - Toolbars and turn off the bookmarks toolbar, and then repeat the process to turn it back on. That’ll fix it for the time being. Unfortunately, the glitch just “re-happens” at a later time.