Menu bar does NOT appear in FULLSCREEN APPS

I think it's a bug, but switching to another space and then back to the space where Safari is, should fix the problem.

I've seen this happening after playing fullscreen videos from YouTube.

I'm having the same problem with all my full screen apps too. Switching spaces and then back does not solve the problem either. If I want to use the menu bar in any full screen app I'm having to exit full screen to get into any menu.

I am also the new user for Mountain Lion after upgrade from Snow Leopard.

I experience the same problem, but I found a workaround by using command key "Ctrl + F2" or "Ctrl + F8". It then will show the menu bard. For "Ctrl + F2", you can use direction key to select menu item you need.

By the way, "Esc" key can help you return back to non-full screen mode, so that you can also get your menu bar.

Let's try it.

I ended up reinstalling ML and don't have the problem anymore.

Very interesting finding.... lastly night I let the ML turned on over night until this morning. I found that the menu bar can work as expected.

In addition, I reported another two problem last night that hot corner suddenly cannot work and mouse dragged icon cannot be dropped. Again, in this morning, both problem disappeared, where can work properly.

Then I rebooted the system. Interestingly I experienced the same three problem again. After few hours, those few problem were suddenly disappeared.

The final solution to solve all problem I reported is to uninstall Air Display. This solved my question.

After unintalling Air Display, dragged icon now can be dropped as expected just after reboot. Hot corner can work as expected just after reboot. Menu bar can be shown properly in full screen mode when mouse was moved to the top as expected just after reboot.

Without uninstall, the workaround is to wait for an hour for my ML to be stablized. It means that after about one hour, those problem would then be resolved automatically, but it means I cannot reboot my ML if do not want to wait.

ya this happens to me all the time i hope Apple fixes all the bugs very soon because it is very annoying.

This happens to me all the time in Safari, only in Lion, not Mountain Lion. Pretty often mousing to the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar will just stop working and I have to do a quick double Command-Tab (switch briefly to another app) to restore it. Happened in Safari 5.x and unfortunately Safari 6.0 hasn't fixed it. It's something I've learned to deal with but it's very annoying and takes a lot of the joy out of Full Screen Mode. And I can imagine for more non-technical users it would be very frustrating and difficult to know what happened.

if switching from spaces doesn't work try this workaorund: ctrl + shift + eject

the result is switching off the mac monitor... but seems that solves the menubar bug! try it!

Thanks, this worked on my machine.

Apple, when are you going to fix this embarrassing bug?

they still haven't fixed this problem yet.

drummer4life54 wrote:

they still haven't fixed this problem yet.

Did you ever file a bug report in that last 12 months since this thread was opened? It has been marked as answered so nobody probably bothers to look at it anymore. Perhaps open a new thread of your own on the topic.

Cheers

Pete

How do you file a bug report?