fullscreen safari WITH autohide dock - possible?

When Safari (and mail, etc) are in the "full screen" mode, you can 3-finger slide the windows sideways to jump between them (or do a 4-finger full up sweep to iconize them for selection and show your desktop. Sweep down to restore the current full-screen app). If you sweep all the full-screen apps to the right, you will reach your desktop which will have your dock in the location you prefer.

I put my dock on the left edge with the small screens to maximize the vertical space.

 

Push the mouse against the edge of the screen where your dock is hidden. It'll unhide after a couple seconds.

 

when i am in fullscreen the dock hides even if i have autohide unchecked (which is always bc i like mine always visible except in full screen)

When you are in a fullscreen app, just move your mouse to the bottom with a trackpad and then move it further down if that makes sense. Like once you get to the bottom of the screen keep moving your finger down and the dock will appear.

In fullscreen, the dock should never appear unless doing the above.

 

Are you sure you're clicking "full screen" and not "maximize"? There is a little arrow icon on the upper right corner of the window. Use that, rather than the + icon on the left.

Just making sure

 

When you're in full screen the dock will hide no matter what (if you're on Lion). Just click the arrow at the top right to go fullscreen.