Missing Options

Ever since the 1.6 launcher was released, I have seen a lack of the "force update" button. Could this be added back in please?

Also, I would like to see an option added to the launcher to keep it open during the operation of the game, or perhaps re-opening afterwords. This is because I'm usually only closing minecraft to change skins, and it would be convenient to just land back in the launcher, and to have the log in the Developer Console still intact, as it wipes itself whenever you close and reopen the launcher.
So far, the only way to achieve this is to have MineCraft crash, causing:

Game ended with bad state (exit code 1)
Ignoring visibility rule and showing launcher due to a game crash.

So, since this is an actual rule, it should be (from my understanding of Java) be pretty easy to add in a check box allowing you to toggle whether the rule is active or not.

I know this is more of a request than a bug report, but you don't have any other option under issue type.

Thank you.