# Brave menubar missing **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 26, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845 "2024-03-26T19:55:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![knucklehead76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@knucklehead76](https://community.brave.app/u/knucklehead76)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/1 "2024-03-26T19:55:34Z")
Updated Brave, Linux Mint all updated, latest. I did nothing else and now the menu bar at top is missing, no option to restore found inside any setting, no Youtube relevant results, no relevant online search results, nothing works. All inquiries here were closed years ago and no answers found there, either. The menu bar was there this AM. i clicked the “Update” button on Brave and it is now 100% gone. Rebooted many times now, checked for all updates to everything. Did these companies all remove the top menu bars? The items on it are now all gone. (File/Edit/View?Window/Tools/Bookmarks/History/Help. A few are on the side bar, not all. Thanks, Knucklehead ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/2 "2024-03-26T20:00:18Z")
@knucklehead76, Thank you for reaching out. Are you referring to the system menu bar (shown on macOS here): ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/c/7/c705c8194e4ec59424d6ef5f2fea41f760ede70d.png) ---
**Author:** ![knucklehead76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@knucklehead76](https://community.brave.app/u/knucklehead76)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/3 "2024-03-26T20:13:03Z")
I am. I did nothing to make it go away and it will not return. I have given up. ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/4 "2024-03-26T20:22:51Z")
@knucklehead76, Do you see the menu bar appear when other browsers/apps are open? ---
**Author:** ![knucklehead76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@knucklehead76](https://community.brave.app/u/knucklehead76)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/5 "2024-03-26T20:24:15Z")
It never comes up, at all. No matter what is opened, what I do. ---
**Author:** ![Mattches](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/brave/user_avatar/community.brave.app/mattches/32/25189_2.png) [@Mattches](https://community.brave.app/u/Mattches)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/6 "2024-03-26T20:27:03Z")
If you are not seeing the menu bar when other apps are opened, then something must have changed with respect to the OS. Brave browser (or any app, AFAIK) doesn’t have the power to remove system-based functionality like that — especially not system wide. ---
**Author:** ![knucklehead76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@knucklehead76](https://community.brave.app/u/knucklehead76)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/7 "2024-03-26T20:31:21Z")
I thought you meant do I see them **in Brave** when I open other apps, etc. No other apps displayed this missing menu bar except Brave. Only Brave has this issue. ---
**Author:** ![knucklehead76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90db22/32.png) [@knucklehead76](https://community.brave.app/u/knucklehead76)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/8 "2024-03-26T20:35:26Z")
When this happened I removed and reinstalled as a fresh install Brave, and it has zero add-ons or extensions. It is a standard install. No extensions or add ons ever even did that before, but there are none. Nothing at all was changed, nothing out of the normal, system updates many times a day, every day. For years. Nothing in it was changed, it simply disappeared last night/yesterday afternoon and has been gone since. ---
**Author:** ![zukester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zukester](https://community.brave.app/u/zukester)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 10:52am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/9 "2024-03-28T10:52:52Z")
So no one knows why? It ihas been asked before, nothing seemed to help them either. Was it removed? Removed, unbeknownedst to us? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/1/8/182067f3480d1a5e7aea5ae3131b116ca1ef7918.png) [@system](https://community.brave.app/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://community.brave.app/t/brave-menubar-missing/539845/10 "2024-05-27T10:53:04Z")
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