Safari's Toolbar keeps disappearing.

This is really odd.
I tend to keep a lot of pages open in Safari. Usually I have about four windows with about a half dozen tabs in each window.
Lately I'm finding that, when I bring a window to the front and try to navigate in one of the tabs, I'm not able to because the whole toolbar is missing. There's just an empty space between the window title and the Bookmarks Bar. This empty space will collapse and expand if I select Show/Hide Toolbar from the View menu, but the buttons and the address and search fields don't reappear. This applies to every tab in the window, but all the other windows are fine, and if I open a new window, it appears with its toolbar intact. I can even drag all the tabs from the old window into the new window, and the toolbar remains visible. It only seems to disappear while the window is in the background.
Is anybody else seeing this? I couldn't find any posts about it, but it's the kind of thing that someone might just think they did something wrong, and closing and re-openeing Safari made the problem go away.

HI David,
Try Safari Mainenance
Just emptying the cache and resetting Safari might help.
Carolyn

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