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Old 03-13-2014, 04:52 PM   #1
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A way to temporarily hide the menu bar?


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Ditto.

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Old 03-13-2014, 05:04 PM   #2
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What menu bar? in your browser try f11.
 
Old 03-13-2014, 05:22 PM   #3
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That's one of the difficulties. I'm not sure about its name. It's the bar where 'File' 'Edit' 'View' 'Go' et cetera appear in almost every web browser (sorry, Seamonkey 2.12.1). In 'View', it is deffinitely not mentioned.

F11 only is Full Screen.
 
Old 03-13-2014, 07:47 PM   #4
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Right-click in that bar doesn't bring up a selection list?
 
Old 03-13-2014, 08:41 PM   #5
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In Firefox it's View > Toolbars > un-check "Menu Bar" not sure about the temporary part
 
Old 03-13-2014, 11:09 PM   #6
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Right-click in that bar doesn't bring up a selection list?
The problem is that I am lacking that bar. Not even the help mentions the expression menu bar. They must have change it's name in some version. Some bars bear a little icon on one or the other extreme, but I see nothing like it. Once I ran 'seamonkey -new-instance' and the menu bar reappeared. I found the option doing 'seamonkey --help'.

But there should be a less drastic method. Perhaps it was not through the View menu that I hid it.

EDIT: In a normally running instance of the browser, where the menu bar can be seen, I pressed a tiny arrow in the leftmost side of the bar, and the bar went hid. However, the arrow itself remained, and by clicking it once again the bar reappeared. No such arrow in the case I'm speaking about.

A remarkable thing is that the name, I now see, is indeed 'menu bar' (a tiny legend bearing that name pops up when placing the mouse over the little arrow). However, no mention at all of the expression menu bar is made in the browser help system. Unbelievable!!!

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Old 03-13-2014, 11:11 PM   #7
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In Firefox it's View > Toolbars > un-check "Menu Bar" not sure about the temporary part
And say, if you sometime later want to restore it, how do you do it?
 
Old 03-14-2014, 08:07 AM   #8
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Alt-v brings up the "View" menu.
 
Old 03-14-2014, 08:56 AM   #9
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Also in Seamonkey, which is Mozilla too, Alt-V brings up the View menu. But as this in case, neither Alt-F nor Alt-E nor Alt-V and so on responded, I think there must be some crash. However, in normal operation, hiding the menu bar clicking the leftmost icon on the bar makes these combination key strokes unresponsive too!
 
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And say, if you sometime later want to restore it, how do you do it?
Right click under address bar in a blank space (next to a tab, but not in a tab) and the toolbar options appear again, just re-check it.
 
Old 03-15-2014, 03:13 PM   #11
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Right click under address bar in a blank space (next to a tab, but not in a tab) and the toolbar options appear again, just re-check it.
That's fine. But I had no address bar either! To enter a URL, I clicked somewhere in the browser window and the Open Web Location box appearerd. But there you can;t do the click trick.
 
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Try
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seamonkey -safe-mode
If it works, maybe some plugin is messing with your menubar..
 
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Well, I at last used 'seamonkey -new-instance and that was enough. Thanks anyways, Smokey_justme. I found the option with 'seamonkey --help'.
 
  


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