I agree with these replies for a menu bar BUT…have a settings button to toggle either the hamburger menu button or a full menu bar not just a bar…we need options…ty.
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I agree it can take me so long to get to my bookmarks or my pins which has led me to go all the way to a new page just so I can click my recents.
Why not both? 
Also @ChiefZach. I implemented a suggestion from this thread, which helps a LOT. Create a folder called “Bookmarks”, then drop it on your bookmarks bar. Then put ALL your bookmarks in this (subfoldered if desired).
Quick and easy access to them then.
Would still love a proper menu bar, for the other options though.
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@BobT36 ya I’ve done that too it’s just so much work
It could be a configurable option. Because the truth is that most functions of the menu bar, I access through keyboard shortcuts. And if it’s because of the bookmarks, I prefer to use functionalities like https://workona.com
Just jumping in to say menu bar yes! I am trying to convert from Firefox and may have to go back due to this and a couple more issues.
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Thanks very much for everything
You sure you got the right thread, m8?
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“I find it more convenient and well worth the space on a laptop, even though it would be a duplication of the functions of a menu button.”
The thread is in Desktop Requests already. I doubt anyone is asking for a Menu Bar on a smartphone. This is clearly requesting the standard navigation for Desktops be made available.
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I agree with you, I need the Menu Bar also. I’m trying to get away from Firefox but without a Menu Bar I will have to go back to FF. What a shame because I really like the Brave Browser.
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hahaha that’s amazing. Both a Bobby T and Bobbie T both in the same thread and hating the lack of menu bars. 
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Yep, my nickname when I was a little girl. 
I went back to Firefox today, I can’t do without the menu bar.
I just started with Windows 64-bit Brave desktop, and I was genuinely shocked when I discovered that not only was there no menu bar option in the settings, but you can’t do anything at all about adding one! No extension and no Brave://Flags option to enable it!
These requests have been accumulating for quite some time, so please, kind and powerful Brave developers, please escalate the priority of this urgent request.
Thank you!
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I’m not saying that the people at Brave are Left-wing liberals, but it’s like Left-wing nut jobs who claim to be for “freedom of choice,” yet take away your choice or only offer you their choice or point of view… and if you have your own, they ridicule you for it.
You guys can add the menu bar here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proper-menubar-for-google/egclcjdpndeoioimlbbbmdhcaopnedkp
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That was suggested ages ago in this thread, and isn’t a suitable replacement.
Sure it gives a bit of standard functionality back in the Edit toolbar etc, but the Bookmarks and others are all Chrome account specific, this is useless for people who are ONLY using Brave, and don’t keep their data in a Chrome/Google account.
For Bookmarks specifically, the best I’ve been able to do so far is enable the “Bookmarks” toolbar, and have a single folder called “Bookmarks” showing on that. Then I have all my Bookmarks & subfolders inside that, and can access them with a single click.
@hotdjdave I don’t think that’s too fair on the Brave team. The reason there’s no menu bar is that this version of Brave is built directly on Google Chrome, and it was the Google team’s decision to remove the menu bar and go with a mobile-focused approach. If Brave wanted a greater onboarding experience and reach more users, they should have really realised this requirement and added the OPTION for a proper menu bar back into the Desktop version though by now.
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Ctrl + Shift + b
You guys are asking to reconceive the whole browser just for a thing that can be done with a key.
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What key does:
- File > Work Offline
- File > Import From Another Browser
- View > Toolbars
- View > Sidebar
- View > Page Style
- History > Synced Tabs
- History > Recently Closed Tabs
- History > Recently Closed Windows
- Tools > Sync Now
- Tools > Web Developer
- Help > (any of the options there)
- etc?
And even if there were keys or key combos, who can remember them all?
@BobT36 - I get you. I wasn’t trying to say anything bad about the Brave developers, rather the lack of a choice by the user. I cannot stand when a maker of a product assumes they know what’s best rather than leave options available (as opposed to removing the ones they don’t feel necessary or don’t like) and let the users choose their own available options. The same goes for political-types… my reference to Left-wing wackos is what that kind of thinking makes me feel like – you can choose, as long as it is a choice they approve or provide you (and this from the “freedom of choice” crowd).
Let the user/consumer choose - that is freedom of choice.
All that said, developers could add a menu bar to make the browser more universal and user-friendly.
Cheers. 
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Basically, everything.
And even if there were keys or key combos, who can remember them all?
Nobody learns them all by heart; you just have to remember the three or four you use most often.
Also, there are several lists on the web.
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That does NOT add the entire functionality of a proper toolbar. However it’s a portion of a workaround for now.
The main point is that a “burger menu” is NOT a suitable interface for a desktop based application, it was created for mobile / tablet devices. It’s an error / lazyness on the Chromium developer’s part to force all devices to use that interface. It’s a simple notion that if Brave wants to broaden it’s appeal to more users and capture market share from other desktop browsers, including an OPTION for switching on a more suitable interface would help with that. If that involves reconceiving the entire browser, then maybe such should have been thought about before just diving into Chromium.
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