I want to surf with only the address bar on top and the toolbars collapsed. I can do that manually, but it reverts whenever a new page is launched and when I close and relaunch Explorer.

Any idea how to fix this problem?

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If I understand your problem correctly, you can choose which elements appear in the window under the "View" menu. These setting remain between application launches.

The menu selections about which bar to display do remain from launch to launch... that's not what I'm talking about.

I want a _collapsed_ toolbar to remain from launch to launch, as this saves vertical space on my monitor. That's not happening. Each time a new window is launched, or the app is relaunched, the collapsed toolbar is replaced by a regular toolbar.

That's what I need to know how to fix.

Not much of a fix (I don't know how to accomplish what you're trying to do�but I would like to do it also)...

In the meantime, go to preferences, browser content and select "text only" from the toolbar style drop-down.

It'll save a little space at least.

Steve