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Why does hiding the menu bar hide the window title?

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Beckler
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[FF4.0] If I uncheck Menu Bar (R click top area) the title in the title bar at the top of window also disappears. IE9 just has a blank title bar! What's with the losing of the title bar? It's actually useful...

[FF4.0] If I uncheck Menu Bar (R click top area) the title in the title bar at the top of window also disappears. IE9 just has a blank title bar! What's with the losing of the title bar? It's actually useful...

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Take a look at this extension,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aero-window-title/

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cor-el
cor-el
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Are you running Firefox in maximized mode?

You can set the pref browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar to false on the about:config page.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

Beckler
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) Ok, nice. So now the title bar is back, but with no title in it! Hmmm

Modified by Beckler

the-edmeister
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Take a look at this extension,
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aero-window-title/

Beckler
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Yup that does it, thanks!

Seems very silly an extension is needed though. I'll never understand why software isn't just fully customizable, to the extent possible. Make everyone happy, I say. A bit extra testing needed, sure. But something this easy? Come on...