OK, say I have Chrome open, and I have resized it so the menu bar at the top shows, and the dock at te bottom shows.
I click the green dot top left to maximize it. This then hides the red/yellow/green dots.
How do I restore it to its previous state after I've maximized it, thus hiding. the dots that perform that function?
thanks, the cursor moving top left works, but holding down the ESC does........nothing?
Press the Esc key (physical or Touch Bar) or push the trackpad cursor to the top of the screen and hold it there, which will bring down the menu bar and the green button takes you back out of full screen mode.
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Axel F.
thanks, the cursor moving top left works, but holding down the ESC does........nothing?
No need to hold the Esc key, just press it. That should just return you to the 'regular' window (sorry Axel F., Esc doesn't bring up the three colored dots, it just shrinks the window out of full screen...at least on the 3 Macs I just tried, two with physical Esc keys and one with only the touch bar).
the ESC works fine for minimizing mail, but does nothing for Chrome. Doesn't minimize Safari, either.
Interesting. Just tried, Esc works in Safari, Mail, Outlook, etc...but indeed, not in Chrome. Evidently Chrome 'hijacks' some of the default actions (e.g. the hold-Command-Q to quit which is the default option).
I am in agreement however we may be referring to different "3 dots". I am stating that once ESC is pressed and released then the window gets out of full screen and reveals the Close, Minimize and Full Screen "Dots" as it should on normal windows. Did I misunderstand something completely? It is possible.
Axel F.
Interesting. Yes, ESC does work for me on Safari...you just have to hold it a bit.
So, as you are an expert, what browser do you find is the best to use on a MBP? I realize 'best' is subjective, yet I value expert's opinions.
Yes, ESC does not work on Chrome for purposes of restoring Menu and resizing Chrome to a partially sized state.
Axel Foley wrote:
I am in agreement however we may be referring to different "3 dots". I am stating that once ESC is pressed and released then the window gets out of full screen and reveals the Close, Minimize and Full Screen "Dots" as it should on normal windows. Did I misunderstand something completely? It is possible.
It's the same three dots, but the behavior is not identical. Moving the cursor to the top of the display 'pulls down' the menu bar and top of the app window, but to actually exit full screen you must then click the green dot to return the window to the normal size with the desktop behind it. Pressing the Esc key exits full screen and returns the window to its normal size with the desktop behind it in a single step.
Noted. In my mind we are stating the same things however with a different approach. Got it. Thanks.
Axel F.
brinkeguthrie wrote:
Interesting. Yes, ESC does work for me on Safari...you just have to hold it a bit.
So, as you are an expert, what browser do you find is the best to use on a MBP? I realize 'best' is subjective, yet I value expert's opinions.
Subjective indeed. Personally, I prefer Safari – it's optimized for the Mac and fully integrated, and I have yet to run across anything that fails to work properly in Safari for personal use (for a while, some enterprise functionality did not work in Safari because of the need for signed extensions, so I had to use Chrome rarely, but the 3rd party vendor (IDaptive) eventually caught up and Safari works now. Chrome is a notorious 'resource hog' (although they may have fixed that).
Question: Mimimizing and maximizing of Chrome on MBP
