Firefox 3.5b4 from F11 -- Forward and Back buttons disabled

[stan]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:59:19 -0400
"Steven F. LeBrun" <steven at lebruns.com> wrote:

> I did a clean install of Fedora 11 (32bit version) on my laptop.
> After the install, I copied back my home directory from my previous
> Fedora 10 install.  In other words, when I first ran Firefox 3.5b4,
> it used the configuration files from the previous version of firefox.
> 
> One of the problems that I am having with Firefox is that the Forward 
> and Back buttons are disabled as well as their menu equivalents.
> 
> Running "firefox -safemode" from a command line still has the same 
> inability to go forward or backwards plus no error messages occurred
> in the terminal window where Firefox was started.
> 
> Is this a bug in Firefox or is there configuration change necessary?
> 
What happens if you move the .mozilla directory in your home directory
to .mozilla.bak and restart firefox (i.e. let it create a new home
directory for itself)?

It seems unlikely this is a bug in FF as I don't see this behavior in
F11, though I am on x86_64.