YOU CAN VIEW SAFARI FULL SCREEN

Thank you SO much!

I looked everywhere for an answer to this & all I would get it is: "why would you want to do that?" or "stupid windows user" -.-

I'm glad I don't need to install an app for something so elementary 😁

much love!

Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X Lion can go full screen, it leaves just Address bar there though... I admit though, Safari needed this feature much ealrier on.

Yeah, instead they had to save it to use as an additional "feature" to get people to buy the new OS.

Such a silly feature to hold back.

NEW IN OS X LION, YOU CAN DO STUFF YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO ALL ALONG!!! BUY NOW! /sigh

gFunk, press control and zoom in slightly on your screen with two fingers on your mousepad or one finger on mouse, just a little will do. when you move cursor to bottom of screen the address bar and tab bar, etc. will move out of sight. When you need to access it, move your cursor to top of screen. It's as close to true fullscreen that I can find and it is irritating that after so much money is spent on a "superior" computer that I still miss some features offered by other browsers. I'm becoming adept at zooming in just the right amount to just make the bars disappear. I still miss the option to open multiple tabs as my homepage but I'm dealing with it. Hope this solution works for you.

Although Full Screen on the built in Apps is much more integrated with Expose (now Mission Control), so kind of good they added it bundled with OS X Lion rather than an update for almost every built in App.

Well you got part of it... If you're not using Lion, there is a simple way to fullscreen without any apps or extensions.

1. Command + Option + D

2. Command + Shift + \ (hide bookmarks bar) AND/OR Command + / (to hide status bar)

3. Align window to top left corner

4. Drag corner of window to bottom corner.

BOOM. There we go, a simple, easy to remember 4-step process to easily enter fullscreen mode. As intuititive as it gets if you ask me. This is the quintessential intuitive Macintosh User Experience if you ask me. Whoever heard of pressing Control + F for fullscreen? How convoluted is that?

Seriously though, I'm waiting until Lion has matured enough before I upgrade. But then again who needs Lion's fullscreen when you have this?

I have Lion, so I have THIS nifty little icon 😉

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Thank you, that worked for me - especially as I have no geek genes 🙂

hi , it can use the following combination for view full screen in safari browser or firefox browser

Shift Key + Command Key + F

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Ridiculous -and misleading- to talk about viruses related to "standard UI behaviour" 😐 the two things have nothing in common.

Then, i'm a happy Mac user since a few years now, but Apple messed up big time with contrasting UI behaviours on their system pre-installed apps... a few would go full screen, other not, some would respond to the ALT+Click for that, most will not.

I find this embarassing from the guys who declares the best UI developers around.

Just out of curiosity here....is it possible to view webpages in full screen? I'm not talking about maximizing Safari....I've figured that out just fine (clicking the arrow in the top right corner of my browser). I've had my Mac a little more than a week now and this is one thing that's kind of annoying to me. I've got this big, beautiful 21.5" display with about 6" of blank, wasted space to the left and right of the page I'm viewing. Imagine looking at a new, widescreen 16:9 tv and then changing the settings to the old 4:3 so that you end up with 2 large black patches on both sides of your picture. That's what I'm looking at in Safari. I hope it's a simple settings adjustment that I'm just not finding or possibly overlooking because Mac language is different than Windoze and I'm still adjusting and learning this new set up. Any suggestions/solutions are appreciated.

Thank.

The relative width of a web page is determined by the web page designer/programmer. Fixed-width web pages are common, and its an aesthetic decision.

For example, if you maximize the window or go full screen at CNN.com you will notice it only takes up a single column. That is a decision that was made by CNN. Conversely, if you load up reddit.com you will see it takes up the entire screen.

You can always 'zoom' the web page by typing Command and + at the same time. That will make the web page bigger, thus taking up more of the screen real estate. Overriding the CSS used to control the width of the page is not quite so easy, but it can be done using Safari's developer features.

Well as Vargo said, there is not a native way to do this, and the most easy is the "CMD +" combo to increase the zoom.

For pages full of adverts and small text i'd suggest you to use the Readability service: http://www.readability.com/it has a nice bookmarklet that brings the page you are reading to its service, formatting it nicely, removing adverts. If you register (free) you can also have the benefits of the Reading List with their great iOS free app.

Another way for you to fix the problem, but it is a bit advanced, would be to use "custom style sheets"; if you go in the "Advanced" tab of the settings, you'll see a "Style sheet" field. That will be used to override settings of the current web page you are viewing.

You should try to search around if any web designer has written any style sheet that can solve this problem.