Did you close FireFox and re-open? Some changes will not take effect until you do this. Maybe even a reboot?

Try the link advice.

Here is a link that might be useful: missing url box

Make sure that the menu bar is selected to show, same place you found to select the navigation bar.

Grandms, thank you but what did you mean close Mozilla firefox and re-open? I open my laptop everyday and the url address box is just not there.

Thank you laat2, I tried everything on the link you sent. Nothing worked.

Ravencajun, I have a check mark on the menu bar but still no url address bar..I have tried right clicking everywhere else to.

What I meant is X out of your browser (Firefox), and then re-open that again. But I really don't know whether that affects your settings or not. On the menu bar you should have File, Edit, View, History, etc. Click on View, and then choose Toolbars. In the drop-down list check Menu Bar, Navigation Bar, and any others you want. Then close Firefox. Open Firefox again and see if you have the toolbars you checked. No right clicking necessary. Hope this works for you.

for me all of my versions of firefox have the address bar on the menu bar perhaps right click and choose customize and see if you can drag the url bar on to it. make sure it has not been squeezed down so you can not see it because you can slide and move all of that stuff on the bars to the size you want it and it can get so squeezed it virtually disappears.

There has to be a setting in about:config for it also but I don't know exactly which it would be.

Menu Bar (File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, Help)

Press ALT V T M (CTRL V T M on Macs) on your keyboard. This should restore the menu bar , You can also restore the menu bar by pressing Alt and going to View : Toolbars : Menu bar

Navigation Toolbar

Press Alt V T N (CTRL V T N on Macs) on your keyboard. You can also restore the Nav. Toolbar by going to View : Toolbars : Navigation Toolbar

OR

1) click on start 2)go to all programs 3) roll down to mozilla firefox folder 4) click on Mozilla Firefox (safe mode), check the box where is said you can enable the menu bar.

I had this issue right after I upgraded to Firefox 12. The browser worked perfectly, but often would not display the URL unless I went up to the address window and clicked on the blank, dashed square where the icon for the URL should have been: then the address would display normally...but only for that page. If I went to another page, the address was usually missing and I would have to click on the icon to make it display if I needed it. What fixed this for me was the following, although I can't explain why:
1) Right-click on the blank icon in the address bar;
2) Check the box for Menu Bar;
3) Refresh the page.

After that, when I went from site to site, the address was displayed as normal all the time.

[Because I didn't want the Menu Bar displayed and taking up screen space, I then right-clicked on the icon in the address bar, and unchecked the Menu Bar. The addresses continued to display properly.]

I'm glad most of you knew what I was asking, so thank you so much, it works now. I like to send links to friends about something on a web page that I think they might enjoy reading and to not have a url address was crazy. I have did system restore thinking I could get that url back but couldn't. I am so sorry I updated my Moxilla Firefox and caused all this maddness.

thank you again, everyone