car's dashboard, Firefox toolbars are completely configurable. This chapter shows you how you can add, remove, and rearrange the toolbar items and even create new toolbars to ensure that the things you do regularly are always within reach and easy to use unlike your car clock. Changing the Items on Your Toolbars Firefox is designed to be simple, and to that end, its toolbars offer access only to those features that nearly everyone needs every day - features such as Back, Forward, and Search. However, Firefox is also designed to be simple to customize. If you can drag and drop, you can give your toolbars a makeover by adding buttons that offer new functionality and by sprucing up the toolbar layout. The following sections look at the powerful Customize Toolbar window that makes all this possible. REMEMBER You can't customize the menu bar (the topmost bar, with File, Edit, and so on) in the Mac version of Firefox. Adding items to the toolbar By default, Firefox offers only a limited set of buttons on its toolbars. However, Firefox has a large collection of buttons from which you can choose to customize your toolbars as you like. Tip Many extensions, such as the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com), add items to the Customize Toolbar window when you install them. You can add these items to your toolbars in the same way you add the default items, by following the instructions in this section. See Chapter 20 for more information about extensions.   Follow these steps to add an item to the toolbar: The Customize Toolbar window appears, as shown in Figure 18-1. Figure 18-1: The Customize Toolbar window. Tip You can access this window more quickly by right-clicking on the Home, Reload, Stop, or Go buttons (or anywhere on the menu bar if you're using Windows), and then choosing Customize from the contextual menu that appears. Drag the item you want to add from the Customize Toolbar window and drop it onto the desired spot on a toolbar. A black line indicates where the item will be inserted when you drop it, as shown in Figure 18-2. Figure 18-2: Add an item by dragging it from the Customize window to the desired location. When you're done adding buttons, click Done to close the Customize Toolbar window. REMEMBER At any given time, the Customize Toolbar window displays only those items that aren't already on one of the toolbars. Tip You might want to enlarge the Customize Toolbar window by dragging the window border so you can view its entire collection of buttons in one screen without having to scroll. Rearranging toolbar items Firefox makes it easy to rearrange toolbar items if, for example, you want to move a button you click frequently to a more prominent location. To move an item, follow these steps: Tip You can access this window more quickly by right-clicking on the Home, Reload, Stop, or Go buttons (or anywhere on the menu bar if you're using Windows), and then choosing Customize from the contextual menu that appears. Drag the toolbar item you want to move to its desired spot. A black line indicates the position where the item will appear after you drop it.