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I guess it seems that i have to find something to click on first - the Firefox bar at the top of the screen has blank space to the right of Help, but clicking anywhere on it does nothing. On each page/window, at the top there is an address bar showing the url of the site, but again, no blank spaces that respond to clicks - there is a little icon (looks like a gear) at the extreme right that identifies itself as "toolbar settings", but it doesn't do anything when i click on it ("broken button"?)

I happen to notice that the whole bar at the bottom of the screen, the one that shows the progress of loading a page, has also disappeared - think that was where the NoScript icon was - so maybe my problem is how to get THAT back, but i haven't had any luck with that either .... don't know if it is a Firefox issue, an OS issue, or what. Shucks, I'm lucky if I can figure out where to go to get help, let alone how to find it when I get there. Sort of like figuring out how to know which doc to go to when you don't know which of your "systems" is making you sick - guess I have to figure that out before I can then figure out (with help) how to "fix" the system ...

I do appreciate your patience and persistence - this is rather like a medical "history" and "review of systems", with which i am quite familiar ....

Computers have always frustrated the hell out of me ....

You are right - all this doesn't really matter - maybe i should just read a good book on philosophy instead :)

How about selecting "Toolbars" from the "View" menu up there in the same row as "Help"?
There should be a "customise" option there.

Aquifer wrote:I guess it seems that i have to find something to click on first - the Firefox bar at the top of the screen has blank space to the right of Help, but clicking anywhere on it does nothing.

You have to do the equivalent of a *right*-click, which according to my good friend GµårÐïåñ, is accomplished on a Mac with option+click. Try that.

On each page/window, at the top there is an address bar showing the url of the site, but again, no blank spaces that respond to clicks - there is a little icon (looks like a gear) at the extreme right that identifies itself as "toolbar settings", but it doesn't do anything when i click on it ("broken button"?)

Screenshots would be helpful here, but we have a better work-around, courtesy of SeeView (thanks): Click (ordinary click) Firefox View menu, then point to Toolbars. On the right should be all those things we've been trying to get to: check all other toolbars so that they're visisble, and check Customize. You may have to re-open the menu each time.

Also, on the View menu, right under Toolbars (I hope), ensure that Status Bar is checked. If it isn't, that's how a lot of your stuff disappeared.

Computers have always frustrated the hell out of me ....

They do that to everyone, even the ultra-geeks.

You are right - all this doesn't really matter

Who said that? I think we have the solution now, using the View menu.

@ SeeView: Perfect example of Human Factors studies -- got so involved trying to figure out how to do a r-click on this device, that it distracted from the Big Picture. Thanks. [facepalm]

Holy cow! Eureka! By George, you've done it! It was the status bar - I clicked it and presto the stuff reappeared! I didn't even know what a "status bar' was. I feel like such an idiot - I must have "unclicked it" when i was scrolling down to zoom, which is about the only thing I use in that menu (my clicker has a mind of its own and sometimes does its own thing - seriously ...)

Thank you very much! You folks are awesome! i will try not to trouble you again ...

Aquifer wrote:By George, you've done it!

Am I Henry Higgins, or Eliza Dolittle? (sounded like a quote from "My Fair Lady", "The Rain In Spain")

I must have "unclicked it" when i was scrolling down to zoom, which is about the only thing I use in that menu (my clicker has a mind of its own and sometimes does its own thing - seriously ...)

They all do that. It happens to the best. And it happens to me sometimes, too.

Thank you very much! You folks are awesome! i will try not to trouble you again ...

"Oh, it was nothing. Really, nothing." (another quote from Prof. Higgins, in "You Did It")

Seriously: don't be silly. That's what we're here for.
We do like those who search the FAQ etc. first, but don't ever be bashful if you have another problem. We like having happy users.


Edited To Add: Now for the bad news. In Firefox 4+, they took away the status bar, leaving a not-enabled-by-default "add-on bar", which caused that thread with 16,000+ views -- in which you first posted.

So, if you do update to Firefox 11 (12, whatever) when support for F3 ends on April 24th, don't panic. Just enable the Add-on bar in the same way, and if NoScript icon isn't in it (it should be), open View Menu > Toolbars and check Customize. If the icon is in Customize box, drag it to wherever you like it - top or bottom.

An ounce of prevention...

(At this point, the discussion went off-topic, and was split to Forum Extras > Web Tech, "Is newer always better? + Modularity-Compatibility issues").

Aquifer wrote:OK, can't find the icon anywhere - but tried the ctrl-shift-s and that opened up a window in the upper right corner that showed what clicking on the icon used to show with options for "allow", etc. Is that what i will have to do for all my sites, now? Frankly, that is a PIA and if so I will probably disable the whole thing or uninstall it .... Too bad, I liked it ... It used to work fine, until it suddenly disappeared ....

I had this same problem & couldn't find it anywhere, until I went to ; view / toolbars / custom / reset, an there it was !
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