Tab Groups Button is missing

There used to be a Tab Group Button on the right side of the Firebox tab strip. This is supposed to be right above the List All Tabs arrow. Ever since I upgraded Firefox to 8 it's disappeared. I can get to other tab groups by using the arrow and then selecting Tab Groups, but there used to be an icon that brought this up in one step. How do I get it back?

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

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Can't get tab group button showing up

Hi,
My tabs are organized in groups of topics.
Usually, I have a "tab group" button that appears on the tab bar, to open the "panorama" and switch between groups.
I recently noticed that if I have more than one tab row, this button does not show up.
I tried the View > Toobars > Customize menu, but strangely enough, when this contextual window opens, the tab group button suddenly reappears on the tab bar of the main window, and of course is not listed in the customize menu.
As soon as I leave the menu, the button disappears from my tab bar :-(
If I switch (CTRL+Shift+E) to the panorama and select a group with a few tabs (so that they fit on one line in the tab bar), then my tab group button is visible again.
I suppose I can leave with the keyboard shortcut, but nevertheless I'd like to restore that button right.
Any help appreciated!
Thx.

You can check for problems caused by a corrupted localstore.rdf file.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf

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Thank you cor-el. I had tried that but the icon wouldn't go on the tab bar. Now it will.
All this may be me, but I still suspect FF5. For WHY did it not happen automatically, as the help page indicates?
Sorry, only just got back to click Solved, as the icon is now where it's supposed to be. The icon I got from the Customization window before was useless on my cluttered toolbar, and I thought the only way to get it to appear on the tab bar as advertised was to remove it completely and see if it appeared in the right place after a reboot or something. I think we're probably still at the stage where we have to settle for ad-hoc fixes of the mercurial behaviour of new versions.

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Hi,
Please check if this happens in [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode Safe Mode].
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Problematic Extensions]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes Troubleshooting Extensions and Themes]
[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Uninstalling+add-ons Uninstalling Add-ons]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_toolbars Uninstalling Toolbars]
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Clear+Recent+History
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cor-el
Thank you for your swift reply. I don't know that this has helped me, as I've reached my level of tolerance for fooling with this annoying little problem - for today anyway. It has been going on since I "up" graded to Firefox 4. My wife is running 3.6.x on her laptop with none of this foolishness. As BLASPHEMOUS as it may sound, I've gone back to IE for the time being even though I don't like it 1000th as much as I do Firefox.
Not just to rant here, I would say that I found a way to put some buttons on the right side of the toolbar that immediately gave me permission to "back, forward, and reload", but upon closing the browser and going out for dinner with the wife, I find on return that not only are those buttons NOT still on the toolbar, but I can't find them anymore. I think they were in "add-ons" found under I believe Add-On Manager.
I did also manage to achieve back/forward functionality running Firefox in SAFE mode, but this meant no No-Script, among other things, and I've grown too fond of that particular little script to give it up.
I've rebooted, restored, and reinstalled, can't get this formerly completely reliable program to work like it always has. Before looking around on here, I was beginning to think it was my PC.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP, cor-el. I'm going to see if I can get on live chat on Monday.
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Copy all of today's files to a safe location (e.g., Documents folder). The strategy is to work through them to see whether they contain anything useful.
Keeping your profile folder open, switch over and exit Firefox. Then delete sessionstore.js and rename sessionstore.bak to sessionstore.js. After restarting Firefox, can you restore the earlier session (using either History > Restore Previous Session, or the button on the built-in Firefox home page)?
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