Works great on macpro 10.6.8! Essential for a multi-monitor display. When going fullscreen the bar stays on top, which sometimes means clicking the hide button, but other than that fantastic free app!!
Ease of Use: 5
Value: 5 (Free for how long I wonder...)
Stability: 5 (Hasn't crashed yet!)
Features: 2.5 Would have given it five stars 'cause all I wanted was a menu bar on my other monitor. I would also have been looking for a window management software, but Secondbar already has some promising features. Promising, because they don't all work right on my set up. Yet.
Overall, 5, 'cause I expect ease of use, value and stability from ALL of my software, so that doesn't count as much as features. Features are where it's at. The rest is all either pass or fail. This passes, but needs some work in the features area.
Better, IMHO, than Menueverywhere. I certainly DON'T want menus with every single window. clutter, clutter, clutter! And, with that feature turned off, Menueverywhere is just Secondbar without the window management.
UPDATE: This app does have a minor problem. It can be slow or unreliable loading application menus. Sometimes they take a while to show up on the second screen, and at times some of the menu options don't show up. For example, I had Open Office open a minute ago and three of its menus were not showing up on screen two.
Still, better than not having it at all, but needs some improvements.
Apps that require intensive menubar usage like Photoshop or Illustrator on a second monitor really suffer without this app on OSX. When tweaking effects or making minor adjustments you can be back and forth between your document and the menu hundreds of times. If that menu is thousands of pixels away on the other monitor you can reach a point of frustration pretty quickly.
There are other popup solutions but SecondBar is a simple duplicate of the original menu on the second monitor. This is the same workflow you're used to so there is no additional frustration.
Thanks SecondBar, I LOVE this app. It's one of my top 10.
I use Parallels a lot. If there is a way that Secondbar will not overlap with a maximized MS Windows, that would be awesome. Besides overlapping, I also noticed MS Windows flickers a lot when it is maximized.
But I LOVE the shortcut where I can snap Mac Windows left, right and maximize. It enhances my productivity 10 folds!
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X0pa reviewed on 24 Mar 2012
Denflinkegrafiker reviewed on 19 Jan 2012
For all you long distance mouse runners - you no more need to move cursor from the extra 22" screen to the iMac's 27" screen and to the menubar...
+7
ModStereo reviewed on 05 Jan 2012
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Smayer97 reviewed on 19 Aug 2011
Going back to 0.968 works best at this time.
Would be nice if it worked with other utils like FinperPop which can trigger by clicking on blank space in menubar.
Would also be nice if Menu Bar items could be supported, selectively, though not as critical.
Rating is for v1.1. Rating for 0.968 would be 2.5
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Homeworld reviewed on 21 Jul 2011
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RiversideRepeat reviewed on 14 Mar 2011
Value: 5 (Free for how long I wonder...)
Stability: 5 (Hasn't crashed yet!)
Features: 2.5 Would have given it five stars 'cause all I wanted was a menu bar on my other monitor. I would also have been looking for a window management software, but Secondbar already has some promising features. Promising, because they don't all work right on my set up. Yet.
Overall, 5, 'cause I expect ease of use, value and stability from ALL of my software, so that doesn't count as much as features. Features are where it's at. The rest is all either pass or fail. This passes, but needs some work in the features area.
Better, IMHO, than Menueverywhere. I certainly DON'T want menus with every single window. clutter, clutter, clutter! And, with that feature turned off, Menueverywhere is just Secondbar without the window management.
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Still, better than not having it at all, but needs some improvements.
yoeff reviewed on 07 Mar 2011
Would be nice if this was fixed so my co-workers couldn't open a hundred windows when my screen was locked.
+3
l33t reviewed on 03 Mar 2011
There are other popup solutions but SecondBar is a simple duplicate of the original menu on the second monitor. This is the same workflow you're used to so there is no additional frustration.
Thanks SecondBar, I LOVE this app. It's one of my top 10.
-1
KLOCK reviewed on 15 Jan 2011
But I LOVE the shortcut where I can snap Mac Windows left, right and maximize. It enhances my productivity 10 folds!
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1. It only does its magic on a second monitor. I have 4.
2. It appears when the screensaver login window is up and the menus are usable. Feels like a big security problem.
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Zitman rated on 22 Dec 2011
Mtvfyrfytr rated on 23 Oct 2011
hansluk rated on 18 Oct 2011
Robarlm rated on 06 Jul 2011
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Pjhot rated on 23 Apr 2011
Nine9nin rated on 03 Feb 2011
+2
Benesch rated on 02 Dec 2010