After you have successfully upgraded your client to IBM Notes 9, you will no longer see any toolbar when using the IBM Social Theme.

You might also have checked “File\Preferences\Toolbars” and found all your toolbars there: all of them enabled and visible.

In IBM Notes 9, there is a new setting that is activated by default: “Show Toolbars Only When Editing”

Uncheck it and your toolbars will re-appear, yeah!