I have found that some complaints about the new Firefox 4.0 User Interface are easily fixable by the user. After making my own set of complaints known and seeing hundreds of others make the similar complaints, I saw a note that one person found out how to fix them. Of course there was no hint as to how. Well here is the missing info.
The first complaint is that the back and forth button are far separated from the refresh button in the URL window and the home button far to the right. I had tried grabbing the button and pulling, to no avail.
You have to right click on the menu bar, and then select customize. That’s not hard to figure out, but then what? I found that you have to drag the home page button off the menu bar into the customize window. The you can drag the home button from the customize window to where you want it in the menu bar.
I also did not like the placement of the tabs. Unselecting the “tabs on top” option puts the tabs back where they should be. Previously I erroneously thought that unselecting this option would doing something weird that I would not want.