The incredible reappearing bookmarks toolbar

December 10, 2006 3:27 PM

Why won't the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox 2.0 remain hidden across multiple sessions?

I just upgraded to Firefox 2.0 on my wife's Vaio running XP. She doesn't use bookmarks and so I'd like to hide the bookmarks toolbar, but after I hide it (View > Toolbars) and close Firefox, upon reopening the toolbar is back in all its empty glory.

I've seen the various other questions on related toolbar issues, I've reset localstore.rdf in the profile folder, and I've reinstalled the Google toolbar (the only add-on), all to no avail.

This is an incredibly insignificant problem, but it's bugging the hell out of me. Please help.

posted by padjet1 to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

Maybe a firefox.exe zombie running in the background?
posted by aye at 3:32 PM on December 10, 2006

Response by poster: Nope. I checked for that, too.
posted by padjet1 at 3:44 PM on December 10, 2006

Try a fresh profile. My guess is that an extension is causing some wackiness. If you can't replicate the problem on a new profile, you're in business. Just import the bookmarks over to the new profile, and reinstall the extensions from the web.
posted by chrisamiller at 4:07 PM on December 10, 2006

Response by poster: There are no extensions installed, though, and I already tried a new profile.
posted by padjet1 at 4:24 PM on December 10, 2006

Best answer: Uninstall/reinstall? (make sure that you remove all profiles as well when you do this)
posted by chrisamiller at 9:03 PM on December 10, 2006

Best answer: It doesn't help that much, but I tried unchecking mine, and when I restart it still isn't displayed. So it can be done. And that's with every extension imaginable...

As chrisamiller says, a completely fresh install (including deleting the Firefox folder from Documents and Settings?
posted by Boobus Tuber at 4:36 AM on December 11, 2006

Does it still do this with the Google toolbar uninstalled completely, as opposed to freshly reinstalled?
posted by flabdablet at 6:07 AM on December 11, 2006

Response by poster: Flabdablet: yeah, I tried it both without Google and with a new installation.

chrisamiller and Boobus Tuber: lacking other options, it seems that's my best bet. I'll give it a shot tonight.

Thanks for the help, guys.
posted by padjet1 at 9:28 AM on December 11, 2006