Firefox: How to Disable Auto-Hide Forward Button

Xah Lee, 2012-03-05, …, 2013-02-12

Firefox 10 (released on 2012-01-31) decided to auto-hide the Forward button when there's no forward.

Very annoying. Because, as you navigate among the pages, the movement of these icons is distracting.

there doesn't seem to be a built-in way to disable this auto-hide. A workaround to stop this behavior is to set the icons to small. Right click on a empty area in the tool bar, then choose 〖Customize…〗. Then check mark 〖Use Small Icons〗.

2013-02-08 this workaround doesn't work in Linux for Firefox 18.0.2 (as of 2013-02-08).

Reference: Source Firefox 10 release notes.