Proper Menubar for Google Chrome

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Add the best menu bar to get easy and fast access to all your useful browser options and internet products!

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Description from store Get everything you need from your browser with Proper Menubar – the ultimate browser extension for a streamlined browsing experience! The extension brings all essential browser functions, including File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Window, and Help, into one convenient horizontal bar. Plus, with just one click on the X icon, you can easily hide the bar for a clutter-free interface. The Proper Menubar is a lightweight and efficient add-on designed to streamline your browsing experience. It categorizes every function under the appropriate menu for easy access, whether you are saving files, editing text, muting the current tab, or toggling full screen mode. With the option to choose between the classic Web Browser menu bar or the Google Products menu bar, you can tailor your browsing setup to suit your preferences. Plus, with the ability to display the bar on all websites, your browsing experience remains consistent no matter where you go. Choose between the following bars: ◆ Web Browser menu bar (default option) ◆ Google Products menu bar Browser extension features: ◆ Browser Menu Customization: Customize your browsing experience with the option to choose between the browser menu or the Google Products list, giving you control over your navigation preferences. ◆ Sound Control: Easily mute or unmute the sound on the current tab, providing convenient audio management while browsing. ◆ View Mode: Quickly access zoom controls to adjust the magnification of the current web page. Choose to zoom in or out for optimal readability, or effortlessly bring the entire page to full-screen mode. ◆ Google Products Order Adjustment: Tailor your browsing bar by changing the order of Google Products, ensuring quick access to your preferred services. Such as Google Calendar, Google Translate, Gmail, YouTube, Gemini, etc. ◆ Country-Specific URL: Switch seamlessly between Google country domains (UK, US, NL, ES, FR, JP, RU, etc.) with the option to customize your URL, enhancing your localized browsing experience. ◆ Search Keyword Retrieval: Gain quick access to search keywords with an intuitive option to retrieve them effortlessly. ◆ Visual Customization: Personalize your browsing interface by customizing background and color schemes, making it uniquely yours. ◆ Drop Shadow Addition: Enhance the visual appeal of your browsing bar with the option to add a drop shadow effect, adding depth to its appearance. ◆ Screen Placement Flexibility: Choose between placing the bar on the top or bottom of your screen, optimizing space and accessibility according to your preference. ◆ Tab Link Behavior: Control how links behave with the option to open them in the existing tab, streamlining your browsing workflow. ◆ Context Menu Integration: Access the context menu to toggle the visibility of the Proper Menubar on the current web page. ◆ Custom Toolbar Icon: Select your preferred toolbar icon in either light or dark mode, adapting to your visual preferences. ◆ Define custom keyboard combinations to activate the Proper Menubar swiftly ◆ Support for Dark Mode Project Information: https://www.stefanvd.net/project/proper-menubar/browser-extension/ Required Permissions: ◆ "contextMenus": Add a context menu to instantly toggle the Proper Menubar visibility. ◆ "activeTab": This permission is necessary for the following features: displaying or hiding the toolbar and executing context menu actions on the currently open tab. ◆ "storage": Save settings locally and sync with your web browser account. ◆ "pageCapture": This permission enables saving the currently open web page as an MHTML file. "◆ clipboardWrite": This permission allows writing selected text to your clipboard using the 'copy' or 'cut' function. ◆ "clipboardRead": This permission allows reading text saved in your clipboard. ◆ "bookmarks": This permission is necessary to create custom bookmarks in your bookmark manager page. ◆ "downloads": This permission allows saving the current file to your Downloads folder. Note: YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions. Google and the Google logo are registered trademarks of Google Inc. <<< Option feature >>> Unlock an option feature to protect your eyes at night and focus on the video player, such as YouTube™, by installing Turn Off the Lights browser extension for YouTube and Beyond. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turn-off-the-lights/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn

Latest reviews

(2025-06-08) Robin Rastle: delighted with the renewed menu bar. Appalled at Google arrogance and disrespect for long time clients. then these big corps are all the same ever trying to squeeze more monetizing and control. We are not respected customer, we are cattle to be consumed.
(2025-03-16) Steven Sawolkin (lymond6): I am delighted with Proper Menubar. And, I had one question, and Stefan answered with fantastic help and marvelous kindness. I'll be off to donate a bit to him directly I finish writing this review. I installed Proper Menubar on all my chrome-based browsers on Linux, as I prefer a menu bar to the hamburger/three dot menus popular today. But also, I installed it on my wife's school computer, both on Edge and Chrome. She loves the menu bar, and says it's a lifesaver there, where they force her to use Windows, as we prefer open source systems. So thanks for making her life at work so very much better.
(2025-02-22) Matt C: Great Extention Exactly What I Needed For Taming And Decluttering My Browser!
(2025-01-27) outback jack: this menu bar is awesome
(2024-12-18) RK: It's almost perfect! I always used Firefox. But with this menubar i can smoothly step over to Chrome. Thank you!
(2024-11-26) Moon Base: eager to explore the possibilities
(2024-11-08) Barb B: I love that I am able to have my familiar 'menubar' back!
(2024-08-22) Ohedul Haque (Bipu): Thanks for menubar
(2024-07-25) Abhimanyu Dhiman: Awesome extension! The only bug is that there no keyboard shortcuts to access the menu bar like in Firefox.
(2024-05-08) Madcopy Madcopy: Why can't I reply to other user reviews? It used to be possible. Anyway, this extension is okay, it helps BUT it would be great if the menu could be pinned at the very top where it used to be. Also, there are many missing menu options. I can still see the menu bar on Mac and below is the list of what each menu item offers there (not including the shortcuts next to each sub-menu option or any sub-sub-menu options): 1-Chrome>(this one may be a Mac only menu item, can't be sure) >About Google Chrome >Preferences >Clear Browsing Data >Import Bookmarks and Settings >Services >Hide Google Chrome >Hide Others >Show All >Warn Before Quitting >Quit Google Chrome 2-File >New Tab >New Window >New Incognito Window >Reopen Closed Tab >Open File >Open Location >Close Window >Close Tab >Save Page As >Share >Print 3-Edit >Undo >Redo >Cut >Copy >Paste >Paste and Match Style >Delete >Select All >Find >Spelling and Grammar >Substitutions >Transformations >Speech >Start Dictation >Emoji & Symbols 4-View >Always Show Bookmarks Bar >Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen >Always Show Full URLs >Stop >Reload This Page >Enter Full Screen >Actual Size >Zoom In >Zoom Out >Cast >Developer 5-History >Home >Back >Forward >Recently Closed >Recently Visited >Show Full History 6-Bookmarks >Bookmark Manager >Bookmark This Tab... >Bookmark All Tabs... >Other Bookmarks >Mobile Bookmarks 7-Profiles >(Active User Profile) >Edit... >Add Profile... 8-Tab >New Tab to the Right >Select Next Tab >Select Previous Tab >Duplicate Tab >Mute Site >Pin Tab >Group Tab >Close Other Tabs >Close Tabs to the Right >Move Tab to New Window Search Tabs... 9-Window >Minimize >Zoom >Show As Tab >Name Window >Downloads >Extensions >Task Manager >Bring All to Front >(Open Google Chrome Windows) 10-Search _____________ >Report an Issue >Google Chrome Help
(2024-05-03) Star: I thought this had a find, but there isn't one now. Maybe it never had one, but I thought it did. It's useless to me without Find.
(2024-04-22) J Hughes: I couldn't get a mini bar to come up and I downloaded this and had some questions and he came on promptly and answered all my questions. Great service.
(2024-04-13) Anton Hohenwarter: After coming back to Crome and having some confusion this was a great help
(2024-04-13) Anton Hohenwarter: After coming back to Crome and having some confusion this was a great help
(2024-03-11) Zbigniew Weremczuk: Useful
(2024-03-11) Zbigniew Weremczuk: Useful
(2024-01-03) Boris Khasman: It works on the main Google page. (my win 7 OS)
(2023-12-11) Aksel Qurduka: Very useful!
(2023-12-11) Aksel Qurduka: Very useful!
(2023-11-28) Morgan Isa: Doesn't work on google where you want it the most. I assume they care too much about controlling the web to allow addons on their search engine.
(2023-11-08) Leonard Kazmier: Useful. Enough Said!
(2023-11-08) Leonard Kazmier: Useful. Enough Said!
(2023-09-02) Steve W: Slurps immense amounts of data unless you go through all the options one by one (and there's a lot). No single option to reject all.
(2023-09-02) Steve W: Slurps immense amounts of data unless you go through all the options one by one (and there's a lot). No single option to reject all.
(2023-08-12) Tony Nnamchi: it is ok
(2023-08-12) Tony Nnamchi: it is ok
(2023-08-04) priscilla Akhamie: i love it
(2023-08-04) priscilla Akhamie: i love it
(2023-07-21) vinod jain: 1...easy setup 2...usefriendly
(2023-07-21) vinod jain: 1...easy setup 2...usefriendly
(2023-07-01) D x: Unable to drag the entire Chrome window by holding left mousebutton in the empty area of the menubar while moving the mouse.
(2023-07-01) D x: Unable to drag the entire Chrome window by holding left mousebutton in the empty area of the menubar while moving the mouse.
(2023-06-23) Lucas James: I actually use this extension on the Opera browser. Im hoping that this is that same one because I want to say that I love using this extension. It is especially helpful when typing in text boxes on youtube or Reddit when. they always seem like they're messed up. So instead I just type what I want to say in your note sidebar. I also will copy and paste things to save for a short time and they stay there. and I especially love that fact that it will read your text to you. Love it.
(2023-06-23) Lucas James: I actually use this extension on the Opera browser. Im hoping that this is that same one because I want to say that I love using this extension. It is especially helpful when typing in text boxes on youtube or Reddit when. they always seem like they're messed up. So instead I just type what I want to say in your note sidebar. I also will copy and paste things to save for a short time and they stay there. and I especially love that fact that it will read your text to you. Love it.
(2023-05-20) Hader Khan: A good little extension, do its little work also if in half of the pages I tested: 50% probablty you have the menu bar so it will be great and 50% you have not so extension totally unuseful. This is because 3stars, rasing to 75% and I'll recap at 4 star, 85-90% and I can give 5star (100% is impossible for a human)
(2023-05-20) Hader Khan: A good little extension, do its little work also if in half of the pages I tested: 50% probablty you have the menu bar so it will be great and 50% you have not so extension totally unuseful. This is because 3stars, rasing to 75% and I'll recap at 4 star, 85-90% and I can give 5star (100% is impossible for a human)
(2023-05-07) Daniel Metzelfed: Doesn't work. Don't waste your time.
(2023-05-07) Daniel Metzelfed: Doesn't work. Don't waste your time.
(2023-01-09) Louis Kramer: I, do not like Chrome, no sir, I do not. Like Ford vs Chevy, Chrome vs Firefox is a controversy. It's Chevy/Firefox by a mile in my case. That said, I need to use Chrome for several work applications and Google Workspace. Pretty sad a State Bureaucracy depends on Giggles...err Google to maintain their information technology. Proper Menubar for Google Chrome is a godsend. I can navigate as needed and have everything I need at the touch of a button or 6. My only regret is I can't give you 6 stars!
(2023-01-09) Louis Kramer: I, do not like Chrome, no sir, I do not. Like Ford vs Chevy, Chrome vs Firefox is a controversy. It's Chevy/Firefox by a mile in my case. That said, I need to use Chrome for several work applications and Google Workspace. Pretty sad a State Bureaucracy depends on Giggles...err Google to maintain their information technology. Proper Menubar for Google Chrome is a godsend. I can navigate as needed and have everything I need at the touch of a button or 6. My only regret is I can't give you 6 stars!
(2022-11-15) George Knoppe: I'm not paying to see if it works. I thought it worked previously but not any more. Removing as no sense in having an extension that is useless.
(2022-11-15) George Knoppe: I'm not paying to see if it works. I thought it worked previously but not any more. Removing as no sense in having an extension that is useless.
(2022-08-06) Cynthia Green: I love it. There are enough changes in Chrome (coming from FireFox) to make. That tool bar made it all a little easier.
(2022-08-06) Cynthia Green: I love it. There are enough changes in Chrome (coming from FireFox) to make. That tool bar made it all a little easier.
(2022-08-06) king egypto: THANKS TO THE DEVELOPER, THE EXTENSION NEEDS ONLY TO MORE SOME OPTIONS TO BECOME INTEGREATED, ADDING USER OPTION TO SAVE THE USER SETTINGS, SHOWING PROPER MENUBAR IN ALL WEB PAGES AND THE ABILITY TO DRAG THE MENUBAR TO THE TOP OF PAGE
(2022-08-06) king egypto: THANKS TO THE DEVELOPER, THE EXTENSION NEEDS ONLY TO MORE SOME OPTIONS TO BECOME INTEGREATED, ADDING USER OPTION TO SAVE THE USER SETTINGS, SHOWING PROPER MENUBAR IN ALL WEB PAGES AND THE ABILITY TO DRAG THE MENUBAR TO THE TOP OF PAGE
(2022-07-16) Palomar Jack: "A swing and a miss". Nice try, but borderline useful. Don't have actual access to bookmarks. I use them a lot. You have to open the "hamburger" menu to get at them. You also cannot manage them at the menu, like drag and drop because, they are not there anyway. This menu is just a local web page overlaying the one you are viewing. I just wish the Brave team would put the menu bar back. Hamburger menus are fine for cellphones, but that is where they should have stopped. If people get confused transitioning between devices maybe they should stay with their little iphones, or whatever. Or, better yet, stay away from confusing technology with more that 10 buttons on it and leave perfectly good menu interfaces where they belong.
(2022-07-16) Palomar Jack: "A swing and a miss". Nice try, but borderline useful. Don't have actual access to bookmarks. I use them a lot. You have to open the "hamburger" menu to get at them. You also cannot manage them at the menu, like drag and drop because, they are not there anyway. This menu is just a local web page overlaying the one you are viewing. I just wish the Brave team would put the menu bar back. Hamburger menus are fine for cellphones, but that is where they should have stopped. If people get confused transitioning between devices maybe they should stay with their little iphones, or whatever. Or, better yet, stay away from confusing technology with more that 10 buttons on it and leave perfectly good menu interfaces where they belong.
(2022-07-09) Bryck78: It doesn't save my settings. I put TOP and it never showed up. Yes I hit the green button. And every page of the program options is the same thing. No where to save your settings. I'd give up programming and sell rags, is my advice to you. Edit a year later: It is useful on occasion, but I default having it off, when I got used to using only when needed, it wasn't that bad.
(2022-07-09) Bryck78: It doesn't save my settings. I put TOP and it never showed up. Yes I hit the green button. And every page of the program options is the same thing. No where to save your settings. I'd give up programming and sell rags, is my advice to you. Edit a year later: It is useful on occasion, but I default having it off, when I got used to using only when needed, it wasn't that bad.

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