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YOU CAN VIEW SAFARI FULL SCREEN

I have seen a lot of posts saying you cannot view safari full screen. You Can do this.. Press the command, option and D keys at the same time then release . This will hide your dashboard. Now Drag the bottom right hand corner of the Safari screen to the bottom of the macs screen. Voila.... To bring your dashboard back use the aforementioned key strokes. Also, while the dashboard is hidden you can point your cursor at the bottom of the screen and the dashboard will pop up. I hope this helps.

Posted on Jun 11, 2010 6:11 PM

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Jun 11, 2010 6:27 PM in response to gFunk1975

Yes, but glims is a download and if you read the reviews it can cause some glitches. If you use the method I listed above you will not even have to risk the chance of installing something on your mac that may or may not cause a glitch. I am sure that for most people glims is great. I just wanted to give an option that could be preformed on your mac with no downloads.

Jun 11, 2010 6:47 PM in response to gFunk1975

I think most peoples issue with this is that even though you can do it the way you described, this has been an issue with all Apple products. They have never implemented what to most people is a standard UI method. And that is to have the maximize button actually make the app use all available screen space.

This is a standard behavior in Windows, Linux, and most non Apple applications on the Mac OS. At least with their browser, you would think that Apple could do the same.

Jun 11, 2010 7:01 PM in response to TildeBee

I use both platforms and I was simply making an obvious UI method that is all but a standard behavior. When a user clicks on a maximize button, the + button on a Mac, they expect it to make that apps window fill the available screen space.

This has nothing to do with whatever OS you prefer and everything to do with what user's come to expect as a standard in UI design.

Oct 26, 2010 11:33 AM in response to gFunk1975

This is not really full screen. It just hides the application dock. Other applications like InDesign do have a way to go to full screen. But that is to see just your page layout with only what you have added to it for when it is printed and minus gird lines, type boxes, palettes, tools, etc.
But I am not sure why you would want full screen (other than what is shown here) in Safari?

Spaces might be a more preferable solution so that when you are in Safari, it only shows up in the one space. You can even only show one window from Safari (like for a conference presentation) using Spaces. Then hide the dock. All you would see is the one window and the finder background.

Dec 15, 2010 6:51 PM in response to cyvi937

I have found a way to get my whole screen filled, but like to keep the dock visible on the bottom and is successful at that. First go to View and click Zoom In. Now your text gets bigger. Then click on the green plus up left on the screen. It fills out more and more every time you switch between zoom in and the green plus, just go as far as you want or until it is filled all the way.

YOU CAN VIEW SAFARI FULL SCREEN

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