Regarding your first message, not sure what you talking about. You can right click next to the address bar to turn on the menu bar with the usual pull-downs like History, Bookmarks, Options, etc etc. I have the menu bar off and just use Alt to pull it up when I need it.
Everything is really still there from 3.X. They just changed it a bit and you need to do a little detective work to bring it back to how you like it. http://www.carsdiagnostictool.com