Google Chrome no longer has a menu bar, per se, but instead relies on the vertical ellipsis (three dots) on the far right of the address bar.

Mozilla Firefox has this same functionality. That popup menu has options for several different toolbars you might want to display. The toolbar menu pop-up with the Menu bar checked. Make sure that’s checked, and the menu toolbar will reappear. I did call it a “toolbar”, and that’s the key to making it appear all the time.Īpproach #2: right-click in an empty area next to the tabs, or on the Favorites button, and you’ll see a dropdown menu, one item of which is “Menu bar”. This works when you’re in the full-screen F11 mode above, too. This will make the menu toolbar appear temporarily, and you can use the keyboard or mouse to access it normally, after which it goes back into hiding. Internet Explorer showing the menu bar in response to pressing ALT. menu bar may default to being hidden in IE, as you can see from the “before” image above but it’s easy to get back.Īpproach #1: press and release the ALT key.

In fact, F11 has become enough of a pseudo-standard that if you find yourself in this same predicament in any application, give it a try. The title bar is typically used to display the name of the application, or the name of the open document, and may provide title bar buttons for minimizing, maximizing, closing or rolling up of application windows. As a convention it is located at the top of the window as a horizontal bar. If you find yourself in this situation unexpectedly, just press F11 again, and it should return to normal.į11 works the same way in Edge, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, meaning that if you suddenly find yourself full-screen and with no address or menu bar in those browsers, try hitting F11. Title bar is a graphical control element and part of the window decoration. Here’s Internet Explorer (showing the current contents of ), displaying its menu and toolbar as normal: Default Internet Explorer showing Ask Leo!Īnd here it is after pressing F11, accidentally or otherwise: A portion of Internet Explorer showing Ask Leo! after pressing F11.į11 instructs Internet Explorer to a) go full-screen, and b) hide all the menu bars, toolbars, and window frames. I’ll examine those, and show you how to get your toolbar, menu, or whatever it is that you’re missing back.Ī lot of people get bit by this one. It’s easy to accidentally hide menus and toolbars. From your description, I’m going to assume you mean that all this is happening within Internet Explorer, though similar features are present in other browsers (as well as other applications).

Where is the title bar