jscher2000,
I think that you have missed the point/problem that others have asked and as of today (7th June) I have had the same problem and it is most annoying and should be fixed by Firefox immediately.
To try and explain in the words of a non IT person (simply a long time Firefox user).
Before today when you opened Firefox and your home page loaded, at the RH end of the URL bar was a small inverted triangle.
If you clicked on this triangle it brought up a drop down list of your most visited sites which in my case are/were (hotmail, Google, ebay, my business URL, local weather bureau, MSN news, etc), then all that you had to do was to mouse click the site you wanted to visit and it appeared in the URL bar and you were straight to it, then once in that site if you wanted to visit another frequently visited site you repeated the process again by clicking on the triangle and then from the drop down list mouse click the new site.
Since the upgrade today this triangle is missing and the only way to get to the drop down menu is to highlight what ever URL is in the URL bar and use the “Backspace” key to clear the URL bar, then place the mouse in the now empty URL bar and the menu box appears and then you have to mouse click the one you want.
You now have to repeat this process for every frequently used site that is in the menu box list.
If the selected URL is very long so that it extends past the end of the URL line, you might have to highlight the showing part of the URL and “Backspace” it and once that part is cleared highlight the next part and clear it and so on until the URL bar is completely clear.
For example if (say) hotmail.com was showing it would take one highlight and Backspace operation but if (say) .9news.com.au/national/four-children-killed-in-townsville-road-crash-one-injured-queensland-news/59bb839f-e0e9-437b-8c2b-6bdcf03dbe04 was in the URL bar it would take a number of highlight/Backspace operations to get to an empty URL bar.
Removing the triangle button surely could not be considered by any sane IT person as a good and/or progressive move and I am sure that if it is not rectified very soon (preferably within the next 48hrs), me along with many other long time Firefox users will start looking for a more logical browser.
If you can think of any way to bring back the triangle feature or remove the latest upgrade so that all of the features that were in the previous versions can be restored (and simply so that users like me can easily understand the process !!!) it would be greatly appreciated.
Also for some reason my most visited site and the one that was at the top of the drop down list – Google – is now completely missing from the list and the only way to get to it is to completely type in its URL address every time – this more than annoying, but I can’t use the words I would like to be able to use.