Upon upgrading from 4.4.8.2000 to the new 4.9.4.1000 I was surprised by the encounter of the total absence of the Bookmarks Bar. I rechecked all the settings and don't think I'm missing anything. The thing is, I then uninstalled it and reinstalled and right out of the box so to speak, before messing around with any settings ... it is already missing the Bookmarks Toolbar. Any insight? Is it a flawed version?
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It appears as though Maxthon now hides the favourites bar by default. Press Ctrl+B to unhide it.
That was the ticket. That worked. That is so odd they did things that way. That is the first version where I see that done and it must not have gone over well because the other day I tried out the Installer version of 4.9.4.2000, which of course follows this 4.9.4.1000 that has the hidden Favorites Bar ... and that newer version had the Favorites Bar ON by default.
I tried checking out the changelog on 4.9.4.2000 to see if it said anything about it reverting the Favorites Bar's status to ON by default. But, I couldn't find the changelog. I could have sworn that I had seen it before at FileHippo, but I didn't find it this time around.
Anyway ... thanks a bunch for that super useful tip, Gord!