Disable OS X fullscreen in chrome (youtube)

[.psd]

This is on a new machine, freshly wiped and updated. It used to be a problem on other MacBooks I've owned, but it hasn't been a problem lately until now.

If you fullscreen a video in youtube in chrome, some videos use OS X's fullscreen mode instead of just going fullscreen like every other video on the entire internet, and most videos on youtube. The details of why this is a huge problem are beyond the scope of this thread.

How do I prevent Chrome from initiating OS X's fullscreen mode? Even Safari doesn't use OS X's fullscreen mode for youtube videos.

 

[bwat47]

Chrome uses its own bundled/custom version of flash by default (pepper flash). Maybe try going to chromelugins and disabling the built-in "PPAPI" flash and see if that helps? (When you go to chromelugins you should see two flash plugins after clicking "details" on the top right. One "PPAPI" version, this is the built-in pepperflash, one "NPAPI" version, this is the "system" flash.).

Also, just because I can't resist, why is this a huge problem?

 

[DerekMin]

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[Lailoken]

Browse to:

chrome://flags/#enable-simplified-fullscreen

And enable it. Not 100% sure if this is present in the version of Chrome you are using, but it is for me.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Also, just because I can't resist, why is this a huge problem?

Because I'm unable to revert to windowed mode for 'normal' viewing after a full screen video.

1. Keys for presentation mode and full screen are greyed out.

2. The exit full screen button (blue) does not work in Chrome as in e.g. Safari?

Anyone a solution for this?

~ Cheers