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I do not see the firefox button at top left of page to acess private browsing

christiepontello
christiepontello
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I am computer illeterate. I have pc I just upgraded to 4.0. I did the tutorial and it says to press the "firefox" button, I do not have one on this page. what is wrong?

I am computer illeterate. I have pc I just upgraded to 4.0. I did the tutorial and it says to press the "firefox" button, I do not have one on this page. what is wrong?

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silkphoenix
silkphoenix
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You do not have the Firefox button if you are using Windows XP. Yours will show the Menu bar instead. The Firefox button will only show if you are using Windows 7 or Vista:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Menu%20bar%20is%20missing

So do you have the Menu bar showing? If you do, go to: Tools > Options > Privacy and CHECK the Private Browsing

christiepontello
christiepontello Question owner
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danks I thought that might be an issue, now I need to repost my other question. The ability to open more then one page of same page when things are funky makes life easier. The tutorial says is won't let you. That has other benefits !

thanks agin

chris

silkphoenix
silkphoenix
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If I understand you correctly, you do not want your page to be refreshed automatically, right? You can try this add-on to see if it helps:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refreshblocker/

Be careful, it might block all of other pages as well.