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Don't know what I did but the top Info bar on Safari just disappeared. I get it by placing the pointer on that spot. How can I get it to show all the time?? Also at the same time something else changed and overtime I start Safari it is small and has to be enlarged.. What is happening here.
I did go to VIEW and looked for changes there but nothing makes it come back..
Are you in the full screen mode when the menu bar disappears? Try command - control - F or the esc key.
Might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
This may require a reset of some other Preferences.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Are you in the full screen mode when the menu bar disappears? Try command - control - F or the esc key.
Might be a corrupt .plist.
Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
This may require a reset of some other Preferences.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Safari > View > Customize Toolbar.
Drag the "default set into the toolbar". Click "Done".
When the Safari window gets small, double click the Toolbar to expand.
To show Toolbar when in Full Screen Mode:
Enter Full Screen.
Safari > View > Alway Show Toolbar in Full screen.
macOS Sierra 10.13.1 Safari 11
Safari window in normal mode
The bar with logo is the application menu bar. On this Mac it is pale green because of the desktop picture.
The bar with red(close), yellow(minimize) and green(full screen) buttons is the toolbar.
To show both menu bar and toolbar, don’t enter Full Screen mode.
Launch Safari and drag the corners of the window to resize the window to fit the it under the menu bar.
Safari window in Full Screen mode
It is normal that these three red, yellow/gray and green buttons will not be visible.
If you move the mouse pointer to the top edge of the screen, Safari menu bar Toolbar will drop down as shown below.
To show Safari menu bar and toolbar with all these three button always, resize the window without entering Full Screen mode.
If this doesn't help:
Go step by step and test.
1. Delete Caches and test.
Close all windows and quit all applications.
Hold "option" key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
Select "Library" from the dropdown.
Library > Caches > com.apple.Safari
Right click the com.apple.Safari file and select "Move To Trash.
Close windows and relaunch Safari.
2. Delete com.apple.Safari.plist file and test.
Backup your Mac.
Empty the Trash.
Quit all applications.
Hold the option key down and click the "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
Select "Library" from the drop down.
Library > Preferences > com.apple.Safari.plist
Right click on it and select "Move it to Trash".
Restart and relaunch Safari. Click “Start using Safari” link at the bottom.
If this doesn’t help, “Put Back” the com.apple.Safari.plist
Right click on the Trash icon in the Dock and select “Open”.
Right click on the com.apple.Safari.plist and select “Put Back”.
Choose”Replace”.
3. If Safari doesn‘t load a page or webpage items are missing
From Apple support page:
Choose View > Customize Toolbar, then add, remove, and rearrange toolbar items by dragging them. For example, you can add an iCloud Tabs button that shows a list of webpages open on your other devices that have Safari turned on in iCloud preferences.
at the right end of the toolbar, it means the window is too small to show all of the toolbar items. Enlarge the window or click the brackets to see the rest of the items.Have a nice day.
In system preferences > General > uncheck the box of automatically hide and show the menu bar , it will show all the time and to increase the size of safari icon , same in the system preferences > Dock move the size slider towards right .
I tried these suggestions but my screen don't show the clicks you mentioned. Under general system preferences I can't find anything for 'automatically hide or show the menu bar'. I show nothing at all about the menu bar.And under DOCK it just adjusts the size of the bar at the bottom of my screen with all the Mac Apps. The menu bar I don't show is in Safari. Only in Safari. I must have clicked on something because it started do all this all of a sudden.
Maybe I'm talking about a different bar. I'm referring to the BLUE colored bar at the VERY TOP of Safari screen. It has the Mac logo and GREEN YELLOW RED dots on it. It only appears when I place the mouse up on it. It used to show all the time.. When I look at VIEW the top prompt to "ALWAYS SHOW TOOL BAR" is clicked.
I thought I understood what you were saying about re sizing but I can't seem to do it. The pointer usually changes to a double arrow when I re size a screen. Which I've done on other screens a lot. But I can't seem to get it to work with the safari bars or main screen. What am I missing here.
Thanks for your patience with me. This is very frustrating...
Click on view > exit full screen .
Try clicking on the green button with the option/alt key held down.
I would wait until next macOS update is released in the coming days.
Do you have any extension installed? If so, disable it and test.
Safari > Preferences > Extensions
OK.. Thanks to everyone.. I appreciate the help.. I'll wait for the update and in the mean time I'm just going to live with it.
Safari top info bar just disappeared.
