Firefox allows you to customize the toolbar that appears in the browser to include additional tools, re-arrange spacing, and more. Customizing the toolbar lets you re-arrange, organize, add, and remove buttons or fields to change your Firefox experience to suit your needs.

To customize your toolbar, from the Firefox menu, select the View menu, and then select the Toolbars sub-menu, inside of which you should select the Customize... item to open the Customize Toolbar window.

Table Of Contents

• Customize Toolbar
• Adding an item to the toolbar
• Removing an item from the toolbar
• Re-arranging items on the toolbar
• Special items
• Toolbar appearance options
• Applying changes

Customize Toolbar

Adding an item to the toolbar

1. From the Customize Toolbar window, click the item you wish to add to your toolbar and drag it onto the toolbar.
2. The item is added to the toolbar.
   • If you're looking for a specific item, and it is not available in the Customize Toolbar window; there may be an add-on that adds the item you want, at addons.mozilla.org.

Removing an item from the toolbar

1. To remove an item, click the item in the toolbar and drag it to the Customize Toolbar window.
2. The item is removed from the toolbar.

Re-arranging items on the toolbar

When the Customize Toolbar window is open, you can re-arrange items in the toolbar by clicking and dragging them.

• To reposition a toolbar item, click it and hold down the mouse button. As you drag it, a black line indicates its destination. To place it in the indicated location on the toolbar, release the mouse button. The item is repositioned.

Special items

The following special items can be added to the toolbar to group items and to change spacing between them:

• Separator. This item is a vertical separator bar that can be used to group similar tools together.
• Space. This item creates a small space between two items in the toolbar. Add multiple instances of the Space item to create larger space.
• Flexible Space. This item adds space of an adjustable width to the toolbar so that the toolbar fills the width of the browser window.

Toolbar appearance options

At the bottom of the Customize Toolbar window, there are additional options for changing the appearance of the toolbar.

• Show. From the Show drop-down, you can choose what to display in the toolbar: Icons, Text, or Icons and Text together. By default, Firefox shows Icons.
• Use Small Icons. To conserve screen space in the toolbar, select this option to display tools using smaller icons.
• To create a new toolbar, click Add New Toolbar. In the New Toolbar dialog, enter a name for your toolbar, and click Add New Toolbar. The toolbar is created as a blank band across the screen in the toolbar area. You can add new items by clicking and dragging them into this band.
• To restore your toolbar to its default settings, click Restore Default Set.

Applying changes

1. To apply the changes you've made in the Customize Toolbar window to your toolbar, click Done.
2. The changes are updated in the current window.

Note: Toolbar changes are not applied to other opened windows. To apply changes to all windows, re-open the windows or restart Firefox.