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Full screen mode?

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whit8725

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Jan 21, 2010
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Hi I've switched from Windows to Mac, I used to enjoy having a full screen for the Browser. How can I do this on mac? I don't want to see a top screen when I'm surfing. I just want to be immersed into the web page I'm on and nothing else.

Help?
 
Chrome has a full screen mode under View > Full Screen, but as far as I'm aware, it's been disabled on the Mac Chrome until version 5.

You can do full screen mode in Safari if you download Glims.
 
spoonerist said:
Chrome has a full screen mode under View > Full Screen, but as far as I'm aware, it's been disabled on the Mac Chrome until version 5.
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you're right its disabled man! Oh no! This is terrible. When do we get version 5? I was liking full screen mode on Windows 7. I don't want the nasty tool bar on top. I seldom use it when I'm on the browser.
 
there is no true full screen without the menu bar in OS X as applications are windowed processes. the green button is for zoom which increases the window size to fit the content.

full screen is available in more multimedia type situations like photo editing in iPhoto and movie playback in QuickTime, iTunes, Front Row etc.

you can however get a nice plugin for Safari called Glims which adds 'kiosk' mode to Safari which has a true full screen mode with the menu bar hidden.
 
base on my knowledge about Mac. there is no concept about full screen on Mac OS.

Full screen on mac OS means full AVAILABLE space on Mac desktop. of course, if a tool bar or any windows locate on Desktop, Maximize button can not make your current windows cover them.
 
Chrome on mac is not as good on windows, it still has a lot of bugs and missing features, what annoys me the most is that it messes up expose a lot of the time.

Firefox has full screen mode but Safari doesnt.
 
If it's a cocoa app you can use mega zoomer to go full screen, get it here

http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

Works on any cocoa app like Safari or Pathfinder...

Or Opera browser has it built in.... assigned it on system prefs to a keybard shortcut, and use better touch tool to get the touchpad gestures for switching tabs and back/forward....


Coops
 
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