show menu bar in Chrome for sites that hide it

Some site open in a new window that does not have menu bar. Is there a way to overwrite this in Chrome? I want to have access to the full menu and the tab.

Solution 1:

On some sites (such as for AnandTech's "Print this article" feature), opening the link using a middle-click creates a new tab as normal.

Alternatively, but this is not automatic, you can right-click on the title bar of one of these new windows and select "Show as tab".

Solution 2:

This is not a Chrome-specific thing it's actually Javascript, which allows specifying the appearance when calling the new browser window. Something to the effect of:

var popup = window.open('http://www.domain.com','','scrollbars=no,menubar=no,height=600,width=800,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no');

I don't use Chrome, but I've found that in IE, I can usually get away with activating the pop-up and then hitting ctrl-N to open the popped-up window in a New browser window, which will have the location bar, be resizable, etc. I'm pretty sure Chrome uses the same keyboard shortcut.

Solution 3:

I use a simple add-on called Merge Windows in Chrome.

If a popup window decides to have menu bar hidden, I can use the tool to 'pull' that window into the main window with tabs and menu bars available.