My Back and Forward buttons are present but do not work. How do it fix?

I have tried several fixes to no avail. The buttons worked until recently. Not sure when exactly they stopped.

Back/Forward Home don't work in 7.0.1 due to '''network.http.max-connection'''s being upped to 256, reduce back down to 32.
*https://support.mozilla.com/questions/889087
Back button problems -- right-click on tab for tab history, or hold a couple of seconds for tab history, or install an extension
* "'''Back/forward dropmarker'''" Extension<br>https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforward-dropmarker/
Extensions that may '''interfere with Back Button''', and these are already listed in [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Problematic extensions] for other reasons
*McAfee Site Advisor see [https://support.mozilla.com/questions/805964 805964] (update perhaps 3rd week July 2011)
*Yahoo Toolbar (https://support.mozilla.com/questions/845691)
Back/Forward: navigation/buttons are disabled -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite
Back/Forward: buttons missing -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
see more complete answer in https://support.mozilla.com/questions/851574

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