Comment 14 for bug 701294

I have to say, this is one thing that really annoys me about OS X. A problem I don't think people have mentioned is this:

When you have a maximised window it is unambiguous which window the global menu is associated with, since there is only one showing. However with unmaximised (windowed?) windows, it displays the menu for the *focused* window which may not be the one you are interacting with. If apps have similar menus (File->New Tab for example) it can get pretty confusing!

If the global menu is reserved for maximised windows things stay much more unambiguous.