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Menu bar does NOT appear in FULLSCREEN APPS

Hey everyone,

I recently updated to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard on release day. Although I am relatively unfamiliar with the full screen apps Lion + ML have started enabling I seem to be having an issue.

I started using fullscreen mode with Safari and noticed I lost my menu bar. I soon found that moving my cursor up to the top of the screen made the bar come back into place.

HOWEVER, about a day ago it stopped working! Is there something that has happened to stop this from working? It's quite annoying as once I'm in fullscreen mode I cannot leave it without hitting the esc button, which closes my browser down losing my websites and work I have done.

This problem also persists in other apps that I fullscreen, I merely used safari as an example because its one I would like to use most in fullscreen.

Is there any other way I can make the menubar show up again? And is there a reason moving my cursor to the stop of the screen no longer brings up the menubar?

I am running ML on Mid 2009 MBP OSX 10.8

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 9:14 AM

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Therabyte

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Posted on Jul 28, 2012 9:27 AM

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.

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petermac87

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Jul 6, 2013 2:51 PM in response to drummer4life54

You must be a registered Apple Developer to file bugs via Bug Reporter.
Register at http://developer.apple.com/programs/register/
- Or else give feedback about your issue here http://www.apple.com/feedback/
  
  Pete

Sep 3, 2015 3:54 AM in response to ian.s.cameron

I have the same problem with Excel... I wanted a way to easily maximise the window for Excel but without losing the menu bar (or having to hover the cursor at the top of the screen to make it appear). Well, the best route I found is to go to Window>Zoom Window - and I've also added a shortcut key for this so I can just hit cmd+alt+z to quickly maximise. Best workaround I have found - although I don't think this works with Firefox...not sure about Safari.

petermac87

Level 5

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Sep 3, 2015 5:01 AM in response to Our Man in Lima

You are replying to a two and a half year old thread! Try starting your own.

Cheers

Pete

Sep 3, 2015 9:05 AM in response to petermac87

It is old, but it still appeard top of my google search! - anyway, I'm leaving a solution rather than asking a question so no need for a new thread - I thought.

Menu bar does NOT appear in FULLSCREEN APPS