I have just had exactly the same experience after installing Windows 8 today as this blogger :
“As I mentioned earlier, IE in the Metro interface often shows no address bar or other buttons, including tabs for other Web pages that the user already has open. I tried everything I could think of to get them to appear–moving my pointer off the top and bottom of the screen, trying to “grab” the bars with my mouse while it was off-screen–but nothing worked. Finally, my colleague (and Metro enthusiast) Nate Ralph told me that I had to right-click an empty area on the Web page to gain access to the controls. Without his timely intervention, I might have thrown something through my Monitor”
Read the whole post at : http://www.pcworld.com/article/251282/windows_8s_metro_ui_7_things_you_may_just_hate.html?page=2
