I've lost the Firefox tab

I clicked tools, then options - didn't change anything, but when I closed out the Firefox tab in the upper left corner was gone replaced by a tiny Firefox icon with File, edit, View, etc under it. How do I get it back?

In current Firefox releases (29 and later), that have have the Australis user interface, the orange Firefox menu button has been replaced by the three-bar Firefox Menu button at the far right end of the Navigation Toolbar and this button is always visible, whether you have the menu bar visible or hidden A consequence of this location is that you no longer can hide the Navigation Toolbar
*There is a star like button to the right end of the search bar on the Navigation Toolbar to bookmark the current web page and a "Show your bookmarks" button next to it to open the Bookmarks in a drop down menu. You can find "Show All Bookmarks" to open the Bookmarks Manager (Library) at the bottom of this drop-down list
*It is still possible to have the menu bar visible via the right-click context menu on the toolbars to have menus like the Bookmarks menu
* *If you bookmark a page then "Bookmark This Page" in the Bookmarks menu changes to "Edit This Bookmark"
See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-to-make-new-firefox-look-like-old-firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/common-questions-after-updating-to-new-firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/learn-more-about-the-design-of-new-firefox
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