VPN button does not show until you customise your toolbar

[neiltking]

With the recent push in promoting the Mozilla Firefox VPN I thought I would give it a try. The first issue I had was that I could not find any mention of it in the menu. I had to search the settings page to find it and then turn it on. It said the next step was to click the button in the top right corner called "VPN" - but that button didn't exist. I restarted Firefox and looked in all of the menus and even the "about:config" page to check that "browser.ipProtection.enabled" was true - which it was. There is no help at all from the Mozilla site. I am in the UK so knew it was supported here.

The Fix: It turns out I had to right click on the toolbar and choose "Customise toolbar" in order to drag the "VPN" button onto my toolbar so it would appear. Now it works great. Perhaps these instructions should be written somewhere as there is still no menu item for VPN or help on the settings page. Without that button added to the toolbar there appears to be no way to turn the VPN on or off.

[Jon]

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[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Use built-in VPN in Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/built-in-vpn
See also, Unable to find the built-in VPN in Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unable-find-built-vpn-firefox

About, there appears to be no way to turn the VPN on or off.
This other information, if you wich to try, Turn on VPN automatically When I open Firefox.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/introducing-firefox-s-built-in-vpn-ip-protection-now-in-t...

[neiltking]

Thank you @Agentvirtuel but sadly none of those links show what to do if the "VPN" button does not appear. This was the problem I had along with many others.

Personally, I do not want the VPN to be on all of the time. It would be very helpful if there was a link in the menu to turn it on and off too.