my safari menu bar is missing --the menu bar for desktop, HD, and apps appears, but when I click on Safari, it disappears, so I can no longer see my buttons for History, etc. I think my husband (pc user) clicked it away. Any ideas how to retrieve it?

I lost all menu bars and addres bar on safari on PC.

[Ctrl] [Alt] F fixed it for me

Right, that's the toggle for "Full Screen."

Those keystrokes will turn Full Screen both Off & On.

Thank you!

Glad you're all sorted now, Pam!

😉

I recently had the same problem on my rMBP OS X 10.8.4.

I was able to restore it using System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver and unchecking the Translucent menu bar box.

I like using the translucent bar so the only solution for me was to Shut Down and Restart and the problem went away. I think it is a software glitch.

This was just happening to me too. It turned out that the problem was Microsoft Silverlight (which I didn't even know I had) had set Safari to run in fullscreen mode. My dock didn't even show Silverlight as a running application, but I went into Finder and then to Applications, found Silverlight, and got rid of it. The second I did this, Safari exited whatever weird fullscreen mode it was in.

If that doesn't work, one should still be able to get to Safari's preferences by pressing Command+, then go from there.

Thanks that worked!

(*edit: this was in reply to someone who posted that in their case it was an issue with Silverlight but the reply-to seems to have just gone for the thread instead.)

That did it for me / thanks !

.. now if only Amazon's instant player didn't require Silverlight I could avoid the problem entirely :-/

Silverlight may be the problem. I have started running Redbox Instant streaming movies. Redbox Instant requires Silverlight for watching their movies on my iMac running Lion. I have found that once you put the Redbox Instant movie into full screen mode the Safari menu bar disappears, as well as the Mac task bar (I have it hidden and usually bring it up by moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen). The only way I have found to bring back both the Safari menu bar and the task bar is to close the Safari windows using the red dot, then the task bar can be displayed. Safari shows as still being active, but if you click on the Safari icon to switch back to Safari, it will have no menu bar displayed. What I must do while the task bar is visible is I right click on the Safari icon and force it closed. Now if I restart Safari its menu bar will be displayed; until I run Redbox Instant streaming movie and go into full screen mode.

This solved it for me! I pressed cmd + L to select the address bar (which made it appear too), went into fullscreen mode (cmd + alt + F) and went back to window mode (cmd + alt + F), and it was fixed. Thanks!

I restarted and the menu bar came back

Thank you for this answer. The "esc" button worked for me. Had this problem a while back and I fixed it. But I could not remember what I did than.

I knew it had to be something simple!🙂

Thank my friend it was just that easy press esc thanks again !!

The quickest way to fix it is click on the finder button in your dock. Then click on Safari window. Now Safari menu bar is back. One of the links in the discussion told me to try this. I forgot which one, but this does the trick.

This does the trick! After upgrading to Safari 6.1.4 I encountered this problem. The fix restrored the Menu Bar. Nothing else worked. /Thanks, frankdenet