# Why did my firefox navigation toolbar disappear?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-firefox-navigation-toolbar-disappear/473442>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-firefox-navigation-toolbar-disappear/473442 "2008-11-19T13:19:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-firefox-navigation-toolbar-disappear/473442/1 "2008-11-19T13:19:51Z")

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I don’t really understand what happened. I opened firefox, and my navigation toolbar is almost completely gone. The only things that show up are the backward and forward arrows on left. The rest of the bar is empty gray. No place to type a URL, no search box, no reload button, etc.

I’ve tried restarting firefox and my computer, searching for updates, etc. but to no avail.

Anyone know what’s wrong?

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**Author:** ![happ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@happ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happ)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-my-firefox-navigation-toolbar-disappear/473442/2 "2008-11-19T13:52:07Z")

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Lots of reasons that it could have disappeared, but to get it back, go to Start\>Run\> and type **firefox -safe-mode** and it will give you the option to reset your toolbars back to normal.

Alternatively, if you can still see your menu bar, just go to View\>Toolbars\>and click to put a check next to any that are unchecked and they will come back.