Safari 4: How Do I Autohide Task Bars

[jddar]

I am new to Safari. I previously used IE. I'm curious how to automatically hide all the task bars: menu, bookmarks, status, tabs, etc. In IE you could press F11 and those task bars disappeared and the webpage took up the entire screen. If you needed the task bars you just moved your curser to the top of the screen and they reappear and disappear after use. It's the one feature from IE that I really miss. How do I make this work on Safari?

 

[swiftaw]

View->Hide Toolbar

 

[jddar]

View->Hide Toolbar

That still leaves a good 2-inches of screen real estate taken up by stuff that I don't need when reading webpages. I'm not sure you understand the function I'm trying to emulate.

 

[yetanotherdave]

There's a plugin called saft (costs around $10, but well worth it for all the features it gives) that gives you a full screen option.

 

[jddar]

There's a plugin called saft (costs around $10, but well worth it for all the features it gives) that gives you a full screen option.

Thanks, I'll check that out.

 

[swiftaw]

That still leaves a good 2-inches of screen real estate taken up by stuff that I don't need when reading webpages. I'm not sure you understand the function I'm trying to emulate.

If you also hide the bookmark bar and the tab bar (all under the View menu) you'll be left just with about a half inch (if that).

 

[yoyo5280]

The lack of fullscreen mode is unfortunate when you want to see things full screen, but for a true multitasking OS like mac os was built to be, I guess you can see why they left it out.

-Omi

 

[MacManiac76]

There's a plugin called saft (costs around $10, but well worth it for all the features it gives) that gives you a full screen option.

You could use Glims to enable a Full-Screen option as well, and it's free.

 

[yetanotherdave]

You could use Glims to enable a Full-Screen option as well, and it's free.

True, I prefer saft, it has a bunch of options like customisable google search boxes, so I can set it to amazon, ebay, imdb, wiki etc instead of google, plus being able to search amazon in the url box by typing amzn "search queiry". Glims looks ok too though, it just doesn't do everything I want.

 

[jddar]

Since it's free, I'll start with Glims unless Saft has a free trial period.

 

[rerelease]

True, I prefer saft, it has a bunch of options like customisable google search boxes, so I can set it to amazon, ebay, imdb, wiki etc instead of google, plus being able to search amazon in the url box by typing amzn "search queiry". Glims looks ok too though, it just doesn't do everything I want.

Glims does the same thing, at least it did when I last used it.

PS: To get full-screen support like that on all Cocoa apps, try the SIMBL plug-in Megazoomer.