Firefox really needs a Refresh button. It is prone to hanging up.

Firefox really needs a refresh button. It should tell the page to reload with the current site address. The lack of such a feature leaves the program prone to lockups - for whatever reason.
I've scanned the user comments and this request has been made many times before I've requested it again today.

Nobody has an answere? Oh well, not a big problem. Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Chris

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Does firefox really need 1GB of RAM and half the CPU to run?

Granted, I have two or three dozen tabs open, but still. This last time, it ended up being marked as "not responding" by Windows and the details included in the dialog are included below. I wish I didn't have to force quit and restart, so what I would like to have is a panel I could open to get a profile of the memory and CPU for each open tab, and maybe some way to flush parts of the heap.
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Application Timestamp: 4e78bec7
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Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18538
Fault Module Timestamp: 4cb733dc
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Exception Offset: 00047ae2
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Locale ID: 1033
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No I doubt it should. Try keying in'' about:memory'' in the location bar, and for ideas look at the blogs by a developer interested in this subject http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/

Does firefox really need to access ctfmon and plugin container?

I'm trying to limit those types of unnessary files for my use & I keep getting warning from my ZASS. But thought I'd chk in to maek doubly sure before disabling them.
Any help, guidance or direction you can give is appreciated.
Thanks

No I doubt it should. Try keying in'' about:memory'' in the location bar, and for ideas look at the blogs by a developer interested in this subject http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/

I have no refresh button on my firefox toolbar and i don't think i have ever had one. How can I get it? I am really desperate for it.

I have never needed one to use it until yesterday. The message i had on the screen was "An error occured while getting the documents.Please refresh the page and try again" So i have no refresh button. I have tried View-toolbars-costumise and there is refresh icon there. Again i tried F5 and Ctrl + r nothing worked. I have 3.6 firefox. Thanks

Thanks to salgud, I learned that the partial circle arrow at the right of the URL (address box), & the left of the google box, is now the refresh icon.

How do I customize the Refresh Button in Firefox 29?

In Firefox 29, the refresh button is permanently embedded in the address bar's field on the far right. On large monitors, this is very inconvenient.
In most cases, the URL of the current website does not reach beyond the 1024 pixel mark, and even if it does, the far right-hand portion of any given URL is usually the least significant part of the web address.
Particularly in Right-To-Left language versions of Firefox, a user's attention is heavily focused on the leading portion of the URL, on the far left of the browser window.
Why is the user forced to break attention from the leading edge of the address bar, and find the far right-hand side of the address field (which can vary in length), AND THEN target the mouse on the very small refresh icon?
Why is the user forced to lift their hands from a resting position on the keyboard, to find the F5 key to refresh the page?
If the iser is already looking at the URL bar, and the refresh is located directly to the left of the address bar, this makes refreshing the page with the mouse a lot more convenient.
Please allow the position of the refresh buttong to be configurable in future versions. There's no legitimate reason to lock down the refresh button.
Thank you.

I cannot enable Classic Theme Restorer. After a month, it still breaks Colorful tabs, all of my tabs are either clear or the same color except for the currently selected tab and pinned tabs. Yes, colorful tabs is that important. It helps me organize and tell my tabs apart. My other problem is that every time I open the customize menu tab now, my toolbars get rearranged from address bar at the top, bookmarks toolbar, and yahoo toolbar with tabs below. When I select or open the customize menu tab, the tool bars get rearranged to yahoo tollbar on top and address bar on bottom. Simply closing Firefox or restarting it fixes the problem, but it makes customizing a problem. I recently installed Adblock Plus to fix a hanging and freezing problem. I keep my add ons-extensions and plug ins up to date and am running the latest version of Firefox non-beta. I am on Windows 8.1 and run with many tabs, but have selected in options the, "do not load tabs until selected" option. I really think you guys need to scap Firefox 29 and go back to 28 and rebuild from there. Stop trying to satisfy or appel to developers and programmers. They are the minority of users. The majority of users use the Internet, computers, and browsers, including Firefox as a tool to do their work. Ignoring that idea, or forging ahead the developer way in spite of this has been a major failing of the IT community and was the cause of the problems with Internet Explorer, Windows Vista, Windows 8, and now OS X, and now Firefox 29. Matching the Chrome rapid release cycle was a mistake. Simply releasing updates more often was the answer, not trying to imitate the competition. I don't use IE or Chrome often because they load all tabs on open, and Chrome is not faster unless you turn off Java, Flash, and everything that makes the Web vibrant and interesting. Congratulations on joining the two big crap browsers out there. Being most used does not mean being the most liked. Firefox was the most liked until it tried to be the most popular. I'm a teacher, and I can tell you, the popular kids are also the most shallow and superficial....

How do I get Firefox to view the latest version of webpages when I return, instead of having to click on the refresh button?

I couldn't find the option to choose on Firefox to view the latest version of web pages automatically each time I return. I've been needing to hit the refresh button.

You can make Firefox always reload a page by changing a hidden preference.
# Type '''about:config''' into the location bar and press enter
# Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
# In the filter box type '''frequency''' to bring up a small number of preferences
# Double-click on the preference '''browser.cache.check_doc_frequency''' and change its value to '''1'''
For more details on that preference see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.check_doc_frequency

My back button and refresh button and my yahoo tool bar are dimmed a lot when I open up firefox. So as a result, I cannot use the back button nor my refresh button AND my yahoo toolbar disappears a lot. I have tried to get on your chat session but it is a

<blockquote>Locked by Moderator as a duplicate/re-post.
Please continue the discussion in this thread: [/forum/1/688252]
Thanks - c</blockquote>
== Issue
==
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
== Description
==
My back button and refresh button and my yahoo tool bar are dimmed a lot when I open up firefox. So as a result, I cannot use the back button nor my refresh button AND my yahoo toolbar disappears a lot. I have tried to get on your chat session but it is always closed. I need one on one help. Please reply with resolution.
== This happened
==
Every time Firefox opened
== two or three months ago
==
== Firefox version
==
3.6.3
== Operating system
==
Windows XP
== User Agent
==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 (BT-canvas) Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.0 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
== Plugins installed
==
*-npdnu
*npdnupdater2
*Coupons, Inc. Coupon Printer DLL
*Coupons, Inc. Coupon Printer Plugin
*The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
*6.0.12.448
*RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
*RealJukebox Netscape Plugin
*Default Plug-in
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.3.2"
*BrowserPlus -- Improve your browser! -- http://browserplus.yahoo.com/
*Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
*Yahoo Application State Plugin version 1.0.0.7
*3.0.50106.0
*My Web Search Plugin Stub for 32-bit Windows
*Google Updater pluginhttp://pack.google.com/
*Google Update
*Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers
*Npdsplay dll

* If the menu bar is hidden then press and hold the Alt key down, that should make the Menu bar appear (Firefox 3.6 on Windows) (see [[Menu bar is missing]]).
* Make sure that you have the ''Navigation Toolbar'' and other toolbars visible: View > Toolbars .
* If items are missing then see if you can find them in the View > Toolbars > Customize window.
* If you see the item in the Customize window then drag it back from the Customize window to the Navigation toolbar.
* If you do not see that item then click the Restore Default Set button in the View > Toolbars > Customize window.
See also [[Back and forward or other toolbar buttons are missing]] and [[Navigation Toolbar items]]
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization

I just updated firefox and now when i play online games ,my home button and my login in button does not work,also my refresh button is gone. Please help me with this problem. THANKS

i updated firefox to the newest version,now my login and home button does not work,also my refresh button dissapeared. I play alot of games and need those buttons to switch back and forth to other games. THANKS

The Reset Firefox feature can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information.
Note: ''This will cause you to lose any Extensions, Open websites, and some Preferences.''
To Reset Firefox do the following:
#Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
#Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
#Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish.
#Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied.
Further information can be found in the [[Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems]] article.
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Firefox is telling me my yahoo toolbar is not compatible with firefox 4.i have no refresh button or any of the others . will there be an update to make my yahoo toolbar work with this new firefox?

firefox 4 came on my computer thru an update. now i do not have my yahoo toolbar that has the refresh button the home button and the other buttons that are on yahoo tool bar. i want to use my yahoo toolbar and it says it isnt compatible with firefox 4... HELP!
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I used the Firefox Refresh button, but it never finished. When Firefox finally showed up again, it just showed a blank screen, with the Firefox "frame".

Reluctantly tried Firefox Refresh. Step #3 says "3.Firefox will close to refresh itself. When finished, a window will list your imported information. Click Finish and Firefox will open."
I never got that window. Firefox re-opened after about 20 minutes with a blank screen. I waited some more, but nothing. At first it didn't seem to be responding to mouse clicks or keyboard entry, but after a couple more minutes, I was able to click on the menus or Firefox button and get a response.
When I look under Firefox profiles (folder), I see my original profile folder with a dash after default and then a number added at the end (xxxxx.default-zzzzz). It is still my only profile folder. I thought Refresh was supposed to create a new profile folder.
All of my bookmarks are missing.

Hello there,
This may be caused by the large amount of visited sites and as a result this can slow down Firefox
Can you please try to clean your browsing history and cookies by doing the following:
1. Click the menu button, choose "History", and then "Clear Recent History"
2. Select how much history you want to clear ( Everything is recommended)
3. Finally, click the "Clear Now" button.
If none of the above work then I would suggest to reinstall Firefox and see if that solves the issue.
Keep us posted!

Why is the Refresh Button missing in the Firefox upgrade I just got??

There has always been a Refresh button in the toolbar at the top. It is not there anymore and I want it back. Please supply it.

If you look at the very end of the address area, after the star, you should see a reload button. Actually, it changes depending on the page status: after loading, it's reload, during loading it's stop, and if you start typing into the address box, it turns into go.
If you prefer separate buttons, you can use the Toolbar customization feature to move the combined button away from the end of the address box and/or split the reload and stop (change the sequence to prevent them from recombining).
View menu > Toolbars > Customize
If you have the orange Firefox button, tap the Alt key or press F10 to display the classic menu bar.
In some cases, it is easier to press Ctrl+r or the F5 key than to find the little button.

How do i get the refresh button to not disappear after i have moved it to the left side of the address bar in firefox 8?

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I've attached a screenshot. You may have to move one of the buttons around a bit until it settles down. Alternatively you can also add a '''Separator''' ('''View''' (or '''Alt''' + '''V''') > '''Toolbars''' > '''Customize''') between the two.
Useful links:
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options%20window All about Tools > Options]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config Going beyond Tools > Options - about:config]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries about:config Entries]
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whats-that-preference/ What's That Preference? add-on] - Quickly decode about:config entries - After installation, go inside about:config, right-click any preference, enable (tick) MozillaZine Results to Panel and again right-click a pref and choose MozillaZine Reference to begin with.
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder & Files]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode Safe Mode]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Problematic Extensions/Add-ons]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes Troubleshooting Extensions and Themes]

Why is there no refresh button on the update of Firefox?

Since I updated I have no refresh button and its quite anoying

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During the page load process it shows as a Stop button and after the loading has finished the button is changed to a Reload button.<br />
If you type in the location bar then that button becomes a Go button.<br />
Middle-click the Reload button to duplicate the current tab to a new tab.<br />
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* If items are missing then open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize" or via "Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout"
* If a missing item is in the toolbar palette then drag it back from the Customize window on the toolbar
* If you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar set up.

When I upgraded to Firefox 4 my refresh button stayed the same. I thought there was supposed to be a new one?

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I just upgraded to 4 and there isn't any refresh or stop buttons anywhere!Not under the customize or anywhere.what happened I wonder?

Firefox really needs a Refresh button. It is prone to hanging up.

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