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upgraded to Firefox 40.0.3, back button now looks like a triangle instead of an arrow

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I upgraded Firefox to version 40.0.3, and now the back button looks like a solid dark gray triangle pointing down and to the right.

On the toolbar customization page, if I drag the location bar off the toolbar, it shows a left arrow, though is still a little odd looking. Drag it back onto the toolbar and it shows the triangle.

How do I get a normal back arrow instead of a southeast pointing triangle?

I upgraded Firefox to version 40.0.3, and now the back button looks like a solid dark gray triangle pointing down and to the right. On the toolbar customization page, if I drag the location bar off the toolbar, it shows a left arrow, though is still a little odd looking. Drag it back onto the toolbar and it shows the triangle. How do I get a normal back arrow instead of a southeast pointing triangle?
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I have a similar defect as of Firefox 40 - due to a UserStyle I am using.

What modifications do you have to create that separate 'forward' button split from the 'back' button?

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I haven't changed anything in a long time, but looks like I have the "Classic Theme Restorer" add-on running.

Do you happen to have that installed and enabled?

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I don't use CTR. I only user CSS or UserStyles to modify the UI.

Since you didn't provide a listing of your installed extensions, see this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems

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I'll check that, just hesitate to mess with it and lose tabs / bookmarks / history / etc.

Another problem since the update to 40, sometimes in the address bar, the URL disappears in every tab. The URLs are replaced by the phrase "Search or enter address" and I haven't found a way to get the URLs to show back up short of shutting Firefox completely down and restarting it. Then, if I do the wrong thing (yet to determine what that is, but suspicious it is running a search from the address bar) the URLs disappear again.

When this happens, if I type something like about:addons in the URL bar, instead of taking me to my add-on page, it just refreshes the current page.

Frustrating

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This is likely a problem with an extension or theme that isn't working properly in the current release.

Could by post the extensions list in a reply?

You can find the installed extensions on the Help > Troubleshooting Information page.