Why isn't the Firefox button right at the top anymore?

When I was running the beta builds (up to B8), the Firefox button was right at the top right of the windows (as it is supposed to be). After updating to FF4B9 (and on), the button is displayed here: http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w111/troop172/FF4.png
I have tried to uninstall/reinstall FF but it doesn't fix the problem.
I am currently running FF4GM

*There is now one large urlbar container that contains the location bar and the Back and Forward buttons and the combined Stop/Reload/Go button that is located at the right end of the location bar.
*This urlbar container is locked to its position on the Navigation Toolbar and can't be moved.
*This change also has the consequence that you can no longer hide the Navigation Toolbar, so you do not see this bar in the right-click context menu of the toolbar area that shows which toolbars to show or hide.
Firefox 29 and later versions have the Australis interface that looks different than the user interface in Firefox 28 and older versions.
*With the Australis interface the orange Firefox menu button has been replaced by the three bar Menu button at the far right end of the Navigation Toolbar A consequence of this new menu button is that you no longer can hide the Navigation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
*It is still possible to have the menu bar visible via the right-click context menu on the toolbars to have menus like the the Bookmarks menu
You can look at the Classic Theme Restorer extension to restore some functionality that was lost with the arrival of the Australis style in Firefox 29.
*Classic Theme Restorer: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-to-make-new-firefox-look-like-old-firefox
See also:
*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
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-to-make-new-firefox-look-like-old-firefox

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