Comment 1 for bug 764829

People could use the menus only for maximized windows because they discovered the menus by accident while mousing over the close/minimize/unmaximize buttons in a maximized window. They then concluded that mousing over the close/minimize/maximize buttons was the way to access menus, but that didn't work for unmaximized windows.

Therefore, this bug could be fixed by making the menus visible even when you are not mousing over the close/minimize/maximize buttons (bug 732653). This would also have the benefit of making menus much faster to use.

Secondarily, the focused window and the menu bar should look more like each other than either of them look like a background window. Currently, other than the window frame, there is no distinction between the focused window and other windows (bug 534799).