Proper Menubar for Safari vs Egress Recon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Proper Menubar for Safari
This extension restores the classic browser menu bar, offering quick access to essential functions like File, Edit, and Bookmarks. Customize your browsing experience with sound controls, view modes, and personalized visual themes.
- Classic menu bar restoration
- Customizable menu options
- Sound control for tabs
- Zoom and full-screen modes
- Visual theme customization
- Screen placement flexibility
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Get everything you need from your browser with Proper Menubar – the ultimate browser extension for a streamlined browsing experience! The extension brings all essential browser functions, including File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Window, and Help, into one convenient horizontal bar. Plus, with just one click on the X icon, you can easily hide the bar for a clutter-free interface. The Proper Menubar is a lightweight and efficient add-on designed to streamline your browsing experience. It categorizes every function under the appropriate menu for easy access, whether you are saving files, editing text, muting the current tab, or toggling full screen mode. With the option to choose between the classic Web Browser menu bar or the Google Products menu bar, you can tailor your browsing setup to suit your preferences. Plus, with the ability to display the bar on all websites, your browsing experience remains consistent no matter where you go. Choose between the following bars: ◆ Web Browser menu bar (default option) ◆ Google Products menu bar Browser extension features: ◆ Browser Menu Customization: Customize your browsing experience with the option to choose between the browser menu or the Google Products list, giving you control over your navigation preferences. ◆ Sound Control: Easily mute or unmute the sound on the current tab, providing convenient audio management while browsing. ◆ View Mode: Quickly access zoom controls to adjust the magnification of the current web page. Choose to zoom in or out for optimal readability, or effortlessly bring the entire page to full-screen mode. ◆ Google Products Order Adjustment: Tailor your browsing bar by changing the order of Google Products, ensuring quick access to your preferred services. Such as Google Calendar, Google Translate, Gmail, YouTube, Gemini, etc. ◆ Country-Specific URL: Switch seamlessly between Google country domains (UK, US, NL, ES, FR, RU, etc.) with the option to customize your URL, enhancing your localized browsing experience. ◆ Search Keyword Retrieval: Gain quick access to search keywords with an intuitive option to retrieve them effortlessly. ◆ Visual Customization: Personalize your browsing interface by customizing background and color schemes, making it uniquely yours. ◆ Drop Shadow Addition: Enhance the visual appeal of your browsing bar with the option to add a drop shadow effect, adding depth to its appearance. ◆ Screen Placement Flexibility: Choose between placing the bar on the top or bottom of your screen, optimizing space and accessibility according to your preference. ◆ Tab Link Behavior: Control how links behave with the option to open them in the existing tab, streamlining your browsing workflow. ◆ Context Menu Integration: Access the context menu to toggle the visibility of the Proper Menubar on the current web page. ◆ Custom Toolbar Icon: Select your preferred toolbar icon in either light or dark mode, adapting to your visual preferences. ◆ Define custom keyboard combinations to activate the Proper Menubar swiftly ◆ Support for Dark Mode Project Information: https://www.stefanvd.net/project/proper-menubar/browser-extension/ Required Permissions: ◆ "contextMenus": Add a context menu to instantly toggle the Proper Menubar visibility. ◆ "activeTab": This permission is necessary for the following features: displaying or hiding the toolbar and executing context menu actions on the currently open tab. ◆ "storage": Save settings locally and sync with your web browser account. ◆ "pageCapture": This permission enables saving the currently open web page as an MHTML file. ◆ "clipboardWrite": This permission allows writing selected text to your clipboard using the 'copy' or 'cut' function. ◆ "clipboardRead": This permission allows reading text saved in your clipboard. ◆ "bookmarks": This permission is necessary to create custom bookmarks in your bookmark manager page. ◆ "downloads": This permission allows saving the current file to your Downloads folder.
Egress Recon
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You are on a guest Wi-Fi you did not choose. Something will not connect and nobody can tell you why. Egress Recon answers that from your phone, in under a second. WHICH PORTS GET OUT Sixteen common outbound ports, tried against real public services. You get more than "open" or "closed": • Refused and timed out are different answers. One means something on the network actively rejected the connection; the other means it was dropped silently. • Intercepted is its own finding. The connection succeeded, but the thing that replied was not the service you asked for — a portal, a proxy, or a middlebox re-signing TLS. WHAT NAT YOU ARE BEHIND Your public address, and whether your NAT gives you a reusable mapping or a symmetric one — the reason a video call falls back to a relay. Carrier-grade NAT is reported with its confidence and the evidence behind it, never as a bare label. IPv6 and NAT64 state, and whether you can reach your own public address from inside. WHAT IT DOES TO DNS Whether plain DNS gets out. Whether the network's resolver agrees with a public one. Whether it invents answers for names that cannot exist. And whether DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS still work when plain DNS does not — each tested with a real query, not just a connection. WI-FI VERSUS CELLULAR The most useful thing a network tool can tell you is "this Wi-Fi blocks it, and your cellular connection does not." Egress Recon runs the same tests over both and shows the difference — attributing it correctly in both directions, because blaming the café for something your carrier blocks helps nobody. BEHIND A CAPTIVE PORTAL It tells you the portal is there, shows the URL it is pushing you to, and labels the results "before you sign in." Sign in, run again, and it shows you exactly what changed. IT SHOWS ITS WORK Every verdict comes with what was actually observed: the banner the server sent, the certificate it presented and who issued it, the exact response that came back. You can check the reasoning instead of trusting a colored label. Where something cannot be determined, it says so and why. Two ports in the standard set have no public server to test against, so they stay untested rather than showing a red cell that means nothing. Share any run as text, a web page, a PDF, or JSON. Saved runs are grouped by network. PRIVACY • No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts, no ads, no third-party SDKs. • It never scans your network. Every probe goes to a public internet service — never your router, never your other devices. That is why it never asks for local network permission. • It does not read your Wi-Fi name. That needs location permission, which it never requests. • Saved runs stay on your device. A report leaves only when you share it. Egress Recon for Mac and for iPhone and iPad are both free apps on one App Store record. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17.
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Verdict
Proper Menubar for Safari and Egress Recon are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Proper Menubar for Safari | Egress Recon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Van Damme | Brian Reed |
In-app purchases
Proper Menubar for Safari
No in-app purchases
Egress Recon
No in-app purchases
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