I encountered a problem in Firefox after installing the Piclens extension. My Bookmarks toolbar was not showing my bookmarks anymore, just a blank toolbar. It was also not possible to add new bookmarks to it. A quick check of my bookmarks revealed that the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder was still there so it had to be a different problem.
I tried disabling and enabling the toolbar again which did not have a effect either. I knew that it was important that the so called Bookmark Toolbars icon was added to that toolbar. To check this you have to right-click the top toolbar and select customize from the list.
If there is no icon visible in the Bookmarks Toolbar you have to move it back in. The icon is called Bookmarks in the icons list there. Just drag and drop it into the Bookmarks Toolbar and the bookmarks should be visible again after finishing the customization. My bookmarks were there again which was exactly what I wanted to happen.
You should also make sure that the Bookmarks Toolbar is enabled in Firefox. You can check it by clicking on View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar.
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THANK YOU!!! My bookmarks toolbar disappeared a couple months ago. I tried a few recommended solutions and nothing brought it back, until I tried your simple suggestion!
Dan
Thanks for the tip! This happened to me today. I thought I broke something :-P
Thanx alot Martin.
I tried to figure it out to overcome this nasty problem.
Have a good day.
Great!!! Yes, I think I lost my bookmarks in the toolbar when I added an extension- not sure which one.
I was really missing that toolbar!
Thank you. For the past hour I’ve been trying to figure out what the problem is. Like you, I knew the information was still there…just didn’t know how to access it. I’ve now bookmarked this thread!
lifesaver!!
You can check it by clicking on View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar. This had helped me to regain my bookmark toolbar! Thanks a lot!!!!!!
Keep it up!
Thanks so much!! Your a life saver. Such a simple solution!
HRM, everyone got them back? I must be missing something. My ENTIRE bookmarks toolbar is not showing up when I right-click on the menu and check or un-check “bookmarks toolbar”. My other options are “navigation toolbar” and “web developer toolbar” and then “customize” …
I tried adding back the “bookmarks” item in another toolbar (since I still have no bookmarks toolbar) but that doesn’t do anything whatsoever, just toggles to a different lighter color and back.
I musta broke something hardcore. I can’t remember how I fixed this last time. Upgrading didn’t work, I do remember that.
OmGxor! For those who the above suggestions didn’t work, I’ve just cleared all private data from Firefox (Ctrl-Shift-Del) by checking all those boxes. Then I restarted without saving session, and my toolbar is back! HA!
Lost my toolbar and bottom border has grown larger.
Still looking for a fix even after re installing.
Hi everyone,
Jessica here from the Cooliris/PicLens team. I just spoke with one of our engineers and was assured that this problem has been fixed since v 1.6.0.836. You can download this version at http://www.piclens.com.
For interested readers, below are links to two videos demos, one by our team and the other by a PicLens fan!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utySPFH_HlA
http://www.vimeo.com/653047
Should you encounter any more issues with PicLens, please feel free to email us at feedback@cooliris.com. We’re ready and eager to hear from you!
Thanks, again.
Jessica & The Cooliris Team
Thank you SO much for this tip. I’ve driven myself mad trying to get my bookmarks to show back up. You tip worked like a charm.
genius, pure genius…. I cannot thank you enough. Other sites had many steps including reinstalling firefox, yadda yadda yadda.
At last!!! :-D Thanks!
Thanks a bunch, this was exactly what I needed.
How is this working for everyone else?
If I drag and drop the “Bookmarks” icon into my bookmarks toolbar, it does simply that. Move the bookmarks button onto the toolbar. In other words, just the one icon. If I click THAT icon, I get a pane open up on the left side of the browser, that then lists all of the bookmarks that should be there.
HELP!!!
omg THANK YOU SO MUCH, (google FTW) if i knew you better i’d hug you, since i don’tm this TY will have to do.
THANK YOU! I spent a ton of time searching for the solution and found your post. This should be much more obvious in FF3.
thanks for this “duh” solution. i could not figure out for the life of me what was wrong. thanks man.
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!
Thankyou sooooo much. That’s been pissing me off for ages.
Thanks. Silly me. Of Course…
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
You have saved my life!!
If anyone has the problem like “Chad” had, that the bookmarks icon goes in the bookmark bar, I had to close the window and reopen it for the bookmarks to show up. Hope this helps.
THANKS SOO MUCH! I THOUGHT THERE WAS NO HELP, BUT A GOOGLE SEARCH AND YOUR INFO SAVED THE DAY! GREAT JOB ON THIS POST…
@Chad: there are two entries for Bookmarks in the customise window – the one with an icon of a book is the wrong one, use the one with an icon of a blank page.
it worked for me once i did this.
thanks for the fix.
Excellent! Thanks!
I also had only one bookmark button (the wrong one) when I tried to customize and drag and drop. I had to change the icons display under Global Options to text only. Once I did this the other bookmark button appeared and I was able to drag it to the blank toolbar. Then all my bookmarks were there. Just note how you had originally had the bookmarks displayed. (i.e. text only, icons, text & icons, etc.)
ohhh duhh.. i had the chad problem. i was like wtf are these ppl talking about. yeaa grab the blank bookmark one. doope thank every one and thanks scott!
Thank you so much! And thanks very much Scott – I’d tried it with the wrong Bookmarks icon. Your advice worked perfectly!
Thanks for the tip. Now I got my bookmark toolbar back :)
thanks! it fixed my problems!
THANK YOU!!!
Thanks! I was about to freak out. I’m glad this page was the 2nd Google result. (Should be #1 in my opinion.)
Wow! This worked! Thanks for providing this tip!
-HTD
It didn’t help, sob
thank you so much!! I uninstalled n reinstalled again and again for this bookmark toolbar!!! finally I can get my favorite firefox back !!
Thank You!
You got the cure.
u saved my life man !!!!!!!!!
thanks – instant fix!
Thanks that solved it for me!!
Thank you very much.So simple but so frustrating.
I was just about to install IE8, I kid you not.
Thank you for the quick fix! (you might want to bold that part out for anxious folk such as myself :P)
Bless you! I just came across this, and you saved the day! I thought I was going to have to get rid of my beloved Firefox….
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
This was the first Google hit for me and it solved it straight off the bat.
Thank you!
I can’t believe there are so many idiots on the internet that cannot figure out something so simply like this.
Just installed Firefox 3.5 and my bookmark toolbar disappeared. Thanks so much for helping me retrieve it.
scott says:
October 18, 2008 at 7:08 pm
@Chad: there are two entries for Bookmarks in the customise window – the one with an icon of a book is the wrong one, use the one with an icon of a blank page.
it worked for me once i did this.,thanks for the fix.
THIS IS THE FIX..THANK YOU THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU!!!!
Very nice and easy fix to vexing problem.
Thanks very much and Keep up the good work
There is also a patch that worked for me at — https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11325.
That was so easy. THANK YOU!!!