Why Firefox menu button disappeared?

Question

I'm using the latest stable Firefox under Ubuntu 13.04 x64. I disabled menu bar, because using the menu button is more comfortable for me. Until an update (around version 21 or 22) the button just disappeared. I checked the tool bar settings but those are correct, so nothing has been changed. I purged Firefox and removed the cache, but it is still the same. BUT I noticed an exception: if I run Firefox with sudo, the menu button appears. I'm talking about this little thing what I miss.

How can I get it back permanently?

Solution

I'm running Firefox 23 in Ubuntu 13.04 with the Button instead the menubar.

You can try the following..

1) Disable the global menu in firefox:

• Open Firefox and in address bar type about:config then click to confirm in "I'll be careful, I promise"

• Search the key "ui.use_unity_menubar" and select it , then double click to change the value from true to false.

2) Right click in the firefox window and "uncheck" Menu Bar

After that you should have the Firefox Button instead the menubar.

Comments

[ViBE]

That is what I did but no result. i.imgur.com/qaADMJK.jpg

[Roman Raguet]

I Edited my answered. please try to disable the global-menu first, then uncheck the menubar.

[Csabi Vidó]

Works also the other way around, when you have the menu button and want to get rid of it: Check that the Menu Bar option is checked, which is only visible when ui.use_unity_menubar is set to false. :)