hi steve, you can right-click on a blank spot on the tab bar and enable the menu bar :-)

Thank You, that solves the problem.

But who was complaining about menu bars? Screens are getting larger and larger, and NOW we need to hide the menu bar?

I have no appreciation of changing perfectly good user interfaces, especially when it's done without my permission.

Give me an option to preview the "new and improved", and perhaps I'll agree.

Otherwise, quit fucking with my software.

Note that you can tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar if this bar is hidden.

• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/what-happened-to-the-file-edit-and-view-menus

I don't know how long you have been using Firefox, but you may remember that when Firefox 4 was introduced in March 2011, the menu bar was hidden by default on Windows, replaced with a wide orange button in the upper left corner that said "Firefox", offering a more compact menu system. Enabling Menu Bar from the toolbar list switched you back to the classic menu bar.

Three years later, Firefox 29 switched from the orange Firefox button to an application menu button (3 horizontal bars) on the toolbar with large icons. Enabling Menu Bar adds the classic menu bar above the tab bar.

So this really is nothing new. As for what motivated the reduction of height of the toolbar area, a lot of people have moved to wide aspect screens that sacrifice vertical pixels for horizontal ones, particularly netbooks. That may have had something to do with it.

Thanks for trying to help, but I have no option to enable the Menu Bar at all. I can enable a bunch of toolbars that I don't want, mind you....but not the one I DO want.

I am using FF 41.0b7, on a Macbook Pro (11,1) running OS X 10.11.5. This just started happening last week and it is driving me nuts.

Any other advice you could offer would greatly appreciated.

Hi saraw1, Mac has a fixed menu bar at the top of the screen shared by multiple applications while Windows has menu bars within individual applications. So the advice given for Windows in this thread probably does not apply to your system.

Could you start a new question? Here's a link, and scroll down past the suggestions to continue submitting your question: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/new/desktop/fix-problems

jscher2000, I have followed your advice. I'd send you a link to the question I posted -- IF I could easily copy and paste it - which unfortunately, I can't. I hope you'll be able to find it.

Many thanks,

saraw1

It's here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1082100