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Menu bar won't stay up in Firefox 123.0 on MacOS 12.7.3

MacOSuser
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The menu bar has ALWAYS remained visible while browsing; it's been a constant!  Now, however, the only way to see it is to have Blank Page selected as the home screen, and this only lasts as long as I don't navigate to any site.  The moment the browser displays a web page, the menu bar is overlaid.  And yes, I made sure that View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar > Always Show is selected.  Has anyone else observed this behavior?

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ValB
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This issue is driving me crazy.  Every single tab I have to click on Always Show.  What happened to that toolbar in the update?

 

coniwalk
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It is driving me crazy as well. It is behaving the same way on both of my Macs running Firefox version 123. Always Show is already checked, but the toolbar disappears and I have to click Always Show with each new tab. It is a terrible time waster.

 

Hi coniwalk, ValB, et al. It drove me nuts as well. I fixed it, I believe (note, I use private browsing). Credit to Reddit's "Subject_Newspaper_37's" solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1ayhty8/bookmarks_toolbar_not_appearing_in_private/. If this link disappears, "Subject_Newspaper_37" stated: "Same experience here, using Firefox 122 and then still after updating to 123. After some digging in the about:config page I found browser.toolbars.bookmarks.showInPrivateBrowsing - turning it to true got me the bookmarks toolbar back. Looks like it was introduced a few versions back, defaulting to false, not sure why it didn't bite me until now, but I never saw the new purple private browser window interface until today either." Another option in the Reddit thread -- which I did NOT do because it would have wiped out my extensions -- was to close Firefox and then do a refresh by holding down the shift key when starting Firefox.

sjallyn
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Me too both Thunderbird and Firefox Mac OS 14.x.  Makes me crazy, click where the menu bar should be and it re-appears, but why does it vanish?  this is the only app doing this.