Navigation, menu commands and Bookmarks toolbars all disappear

Hi---started up and suddenly
---No Navigation buttons or customized buttons
--no bookmarks toolbar
--no box in which to enter a URL and change to another page
--no menu commands
--pretty much nothing, in fact, except the content of my home page. There's not even the series of commands for "about" or "help" NOTHING
Now, I discovered by accident that if I click on a link from my portal (netvibes) that happens to open in a new window, then all my old stuff appears.
But every time I open the first instance of the browser as a default--it's unuseable as it even lacks a place to put a url to change sites!
I've tried right-clicking along the strip as I saw in a FAQ; all I get are Windows commands (restore, minimize, close, and a nview command added long ago by my video card), but no options to CUSTOMIZE and or VIEW and restore toolbars, etc-
I tried f11 to make sure that I was not accidentally running full screen (although clearly I was not) and that test demonstrated I was not.
I hit f10---nothing happened.
When I right click elsewhere on the page (other than on a link from some feed on my portal), it gives me a host of commands from various extensions, like "open tab in new window" or "add to evernote" or "fireshot" but nothing that seems directly related to Firefox except I can see navigation commands like back/forward in the right click menu.
Clicking on the Firefox icon in the upper left just brings up the "close" "minimize" "restore" commands mentioned earlier from Windows.
Any advice?
FF 16.01, WinXPsp3

Quote: ''FF is set for me to clear cache on every exit. ''
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See "Creating a profile":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.
If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
See:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
You can also try to reset Firefox:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting

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