Firefox doesn't work right?!

The place to look is probably View > Toolbars from there you can re enable your bookmarks bar, and hit customize to add and remove icons on the bars this should allow you to re add back forward etc.

That didn't work. I am having all kinds of problems with ubuntu. Apps not working correctly, or at all, startup apps. only loading sometimes. I love the multiple workspaces and effects but I'm not a programmer and am having trouble with alot of things. I think the most is being so used to the evil windows.

Please try:

Clean firefox mozilla profile

Close all opened Firefox and try to delete your Firefox user setting open a terminal from applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
mv .mozilla .mozilla_old
and restart Firefox.

If you have a lot of bookmarks please export them before move your setting directory, then import them again from saved file into Firefox.
Also take note of your installed Firefox extensions, to reinstall them.

if this works then delete the .mozilla_old directory, from terminal, type:
rm -fr .mozilla_old

Hope this helps