This question was asked in 2020, in an older OS.. The suggested solution cannot be applied in the more recent OS.
I'm trying to get a solution in a 2019, Apple 27" Intel iMac, running Sonoma.
How do I get Safari to show a full screen when I do a search. I've gone through preferences and each time I do a search, it comes up on the left hand side in a tiny font.
iMac 27″, 14.7
This is what it looks like here:
The right side of the page (above where it says "List View") renders improperly but that's a website problem we can't fix. We can however mitigate it by altering the Page Zoom like so, but we shouldn't have to do that.
Check the settings for the specific "search" website page you are using. For example, Amazon website appearance in Safari - Apple Community
Good Day John
Thank you for your quick reply
However the problem was not on a web-site, but on the Google page with the search results.. Everything was pushed into a narrow column on the left side.
BUT. (i'm even more confused now)
The layout/arrangement has changed, I do not know why, I made no further attemps to fix/alter anything after asking my question here.
The page with the search results now has a wider column (not the full screen, but wider), I can now read & access much easier. screen cap below.
I can live with this result, But I have no idea why things changed. I had not seen items boxed in before, Store web-sites & Youtube videos, but items isolated in round corner boxes are new to me.
I appreciate your help, but I'm going to let things ride for a while before digging around some more.
May install Sequoia and see what happens.
Thank you
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Perhaps Google changed something.
A Google page with search results is just a webpage like any other, isn't it? And if that's the case, you can change how Safari renders it, on an individual per-website basis. That's what I was thinking, but I don't use Google. Try the suggestions in If Safari doesn't open a page or work as expected on your Mac - Apple Support. Some of them are more useful than others.
Search results layout too narrow
