MacOS – Dock and Menu Bar Disappear in OS X El Capitan When in App Window

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I have a Macbook Pro 11,1 running OS X El Captian. Recently, whenever in an application such as Firefox my menu bar and dock disappear. This is really annoying, as in system preferences both my dock & menu bar are set to not autohide. If I click the desktop, suddenly the dock and menu bar pop back up.

Any suggestions?

Best Answer

It turns out this is a bug with Firefox. These instructions I found fixed the issue.

  1. In Finder right click on the Firefox app and select “Show Package Contents”

  2. Navigate to Contents and open “Info.plist” in TextEdit.

  3. In this file, near the top, there should be a piece of text that says < dict >, underneath this add the following making sure all of the text is present.

    <key>LSUIPresentationMode</key>
<integer>0</integer>

  4. Save that file

  5. Restart Firefox
  6. Happy browsing again

src: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3096551?tstart=0

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