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Google Chrome: Bookmark Bar Disappears – Fix

Google Chrome: Bookmark Bar Disappears – Fix

By Mitch Bartlett 23 Comments

I noticed that my Google Chrome bookmark bar along the top of the screen had disappeared. It would only reappear on certain web sites such as the Home page. I guess I must have hit something accidentally to make it do this.

Google Chrome Bookmark Bar

Luckily, it was a simple solution to bring the bookmark bar back. Just use these keystroke combinations:

  • Windows and Linux: Hold down the “CTRL” and “Shift” keys while pressing “B“, to make the bar reappear.
  • Mac : Hold down the “Command” and “Shift” keys while pressing “B“.

The bookmark toolbar should now stay in place. You can use the same keystrokes (which you may accidentally hit from time to time) to toggle it back and forth and remove the bar if you’d like to browse the web in a bigger window.

If the Chrome bookmark bar keeps disappearing, check a setting using these steps:

  1. Select the “Menu” 3 Dots Menu Icon button in the upper-right corner, then choose “Settings“.
  2. In the “Appearance” section, turn the “Show the bookmarks bar” option to “On“.

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  2. Brett Ferris says

    Another possible problem is that sync turned off. Click you initial or avatar in the top right of the screen and if in the menu it says, “Turn sync on” it means that Google is running a different type of log in that is not synced to you Google account, and this is why the bookmarks and other important stuff like alternate log ins and stored passwords aren’t working, Check “Turn sync on’ and that might fix it,

  3. Michael Segers says

    A friend’s Favorites/Bookmark bar disappeared. Clicking on the three dots, then on Bookmarks when that pops up, It has a check mark in front of Show bookmarks bar.
    On the Settings/Appearance menu, shown in your article, the Show bookmarks bar is on (to the right, as you show), but the Bookmarks bar does not appear.

  4. Greg Carter says

    I am aware of how to turn the Bookmark Bar on and off. That is not the issue.

    The issue is that for no reason I open Chrome and it is gone. The shortcut is the best answer, but why in the heck is it ‘turning itself off?’

  7. Dorian Stonehouse says

    To Clare Baxter
    Apologies for getting your name mixed up. I am ever so grateful to you for posting this cure, as I had been trying to restore my tool bar and recent bookmarks for ages. I would have never thought of this action. My sincere thanks for your input. Dorian.

  8. BongHee Choi says

    around 3 hours i tried to find the bookmarks bar. But i couldn’t get it.
    Then, From TechniPages shown me the way to solving that was
    [ 1. Select the “Menu” 3 Dots Menu Icon button in the upper-right corner, then choose “Settings“.]
    [ 2. In the “Appearance” section, turn the “Show the bookmarks bar” option to “On“.]
    i follow what the “TechniPages” showed. now i got bookmarks bar right away. Thank You very much!!!

  10. Meredith says

    Does not help me. I’m importing all my bookmarks from Firefox, have closed Firefox as instructed, and Chrome says that they’ve been imported…Can’t find the bookmark bar and have tried your suggested fix. I’m running Windows 10…

  11. Angelica says

    Wonderful, exactly what I needed! It had been bugging me for months, such a quick fix :)

  12. Michele Denise says

    I use the window 10 version on my computer. In google chrome search engine when i go to a web page lets say ebay and save the icon to my desktop to create a shortcut when using that shortcut it will lead me back to ebay but i will not get the bar at the top that lets you go forward and backwards and refresh etc. How do i fix this?

  13. Clare Baxter says

    I had this problem too, took me a while to figure it out I will describe mine and maybe it applies to your situation. Today, I could not find my second gmail account that I had set up a couple of years ago; I needed to use a different email address for verification to set up utility bills for some of my properties, so I persevered. After googling numerous times for help, I finally found a solution of setting up another person in chrome under 1) settings, 2) manage other people. Upon doing this, my bookmarks seemingly disappeared, I finally realized that the Chrome tab that I was using was opened under the new “person” that I had just set up with the second gmail address, which was me, of course, and with the same photo, confusing. I had to go back to 1) settings, 2) manage other people and click on my main email address; when I did, all of my bookmarks were there. So confusing! Good luck.

  18. Ginger says

    Ctrl + shift + B does not work for me…nor does going into appearance and manuall sliding the lever.

    All it does is remove a very fine line. That’s it. I don’t like having my personal bookmarks publicized for all in the house to see!

  19. jp says

    didn’t work for me — i managed to get back the commercial ones individually but now have to go dig for the others — what a pain. This isn’t the first time this has happened.

    any other suggestions to retrieve ALL bookmarks on the bar without redoing everything?

    thanks

  20. Donna Cullen says

    thanks – reversed what my cat managed to do (no instructions needed for her!)
    she is also really good at changing the screen orientation (confusing on a laptop) that I have worked out
    She can also change the screen resolution with a shortcut key combination – I have to go into the menus to resolve that one!

  23. marilyn jones says

    All my important bookmarks disappeared when the tool bar disappeared. I have XP so I guess they are trying to force me to upgrade, which I’m not going to do. Is there somehow I can get it back?

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