Just had this happen first time ever. Menu bar went straight pink. WTH? Rebooted and it's gone. M3 MBA Sequoia 15.3.1
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Menu bar turns pink
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Same here; menu bar 'came back' after switching application. Ever since 15.3.1
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I found that it happens when FireFox is active; the effect stops (bar visible again) when you blindly click on the app's
name 16 mm right from the left upper screen corner.
Any more? Anyone else?
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I bet that has something to do with Firefox's ability to switch between modern titlebar and classic titlebar.
Well, if you think about it, where is the Firefox menu bar? It's right smack in the middle of the area that Firefox can allow you to hide when choosing the modern title bar.. the very thing that is turning pink on your system. This bug is Mozilla's fault.. and their childish tinkering "to make things better". Really, a pink menu bar is "better"?
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This bug has been present since Sonoma. It's interesting that it happens on M series Macs too, I thought it was only on Intel... Sometimes the menubar turns red, sometimes part of it turn purple, clicking anywhere makes it go away, and it reappears after a while, but I suspect it's a GPU memory thing, I don't know how or why though. I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed, since there's no way Apple is not aware of it. It's not related to Firefox or any kind of specific app.
Oddly enough, I found that the ONLY workaround (for me at least) that works is to use a desktop picture forcing the menubar to appear white-ish, or "light" to use the terminology of light/dark appearance (for instance I use a desktop picture with a 25px light stripe at the top, which automatically turns the menubar white, regardless of the appearance I choose in system settings). I have absolutely no idea what causes this bug but if you have an "always on" white menubar, this bug goes away. It's too bad because I like the default transparent one, but I don't like that kind of cosmetic glitches either...
Oddly enough, I found that the ONLY workaround (for me at least) that works is to use a desktop picture forcing the menubar to appear white-ish, or "light" to use the terminology of light/dark appearance (for instance I use a desktop picture with a 25px light stripe at the top, which automatically turns the menubar white, regardless of the appearance I choose in system settings). I have absolutely no idea what causes this bug but if you have an "always on" white menubar, this bug goes away. It's too bad because I like the default transparent one, but I don't like that kind of cosmetic glitches either...
On my 2019 Intel MBP with Vega 20 GPU, I’ve noticed my menu bar will temporarily turn red after starting up or exiting Mozilla VPN. I think it’s also happened when exiting Affinity Photos app. I’ll pay attention to when it happens and what apps cause it. Started doing this with Sonoma if I recall. I also notice that occasionally when I exit a program the left side of my menu bar looks pixelated and low resolution, and returns to normal after I launch a new application. I thought maybe it was related to AMD drivers or something with Intel MBPs. Doesn’t exhibit this behavior in Mojave through Monterey (I skipped Ventura).
So it must be the application(s); I filed a bug report to Mozilla, referring to this thread.
See what happens next.
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It happens with so many apps (Adobe, Safari, Cubase, Pro Tools, Apple's Photos, Mail, Logic, the list goes on...) and more and less randomly. I can't believe Apple hasn't addressed this. I guess it's something with the windowserver, or vram, or I don't know what else. Since Apple is silent maybe some 3rd party developers can shed some light on this issue, so fingers crossed with your bug report...
Eliminating this bug with a workaround at the expense of the OS' standard appearance is not really a solution!