Full Screen Safari - Top of page is cut off

Sometimes, but not every time, when I'm using Safari in Full Screen the top of the page is cut off. If I scroll I can pull it down and see the part cut off but when I stop scrolling it just goes back to being cut off again. To temporarily fix the problem I take Safari out of Full Screen mode and it fixes it then I can put it into Full Screen mode again and it will stay fixed until it does it again. I have figured out any specific pattern to reproduce the problem. Has anyone else seen this too? Is it a known bug?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 13, 2011 6:31 AM

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Sep 13, 2017 8:46 PM in response to PDaunno

This is also a problem with me too, in FB, YouTube, and other websites that implement heavy JavaScript. Safari truncatesd the Headers of websites, usually after a javascript tiimeout

Although Safari is marketed as super fast, it is the slowest browser i have on my Mac (have 5 different browsers), and is also the most deprecated as far as playing videos on sites like cnn, the guardian, the sun, fox and so on. It just cant play them. For me its not an option to not use safari because its the only browser that lets me use text replacement shortcodes to fill in text strings that i use repeatedly when i am authoring stuff on the web, and it saves me a lot of time. Otherwise i would consider Safari to be totally deprecated due to massive incompatibilities with many modern websites. Having said that, i also do not blame Safari, rather, many of these 'modern' websites, like fox and time and cnn and the guardian and so on, because they dont try to make their websites compatible with all browsers. it should be the job of the web designer to make compatibility, not so much the browser developers . Its definitely to do with the jasvascript and flash like code found in websites like facebook that cause this truncation of headers. But i must add that my wordpress sites also get their 'heads chopped off' by Safari when i leave the tab open without using it for a while. It seems to be a timeout issue involved, as it happens after a time, not instantly. Facebook is also inconsiderate with its mega massive code (BIG DATA mining of User behaviours)

Anyway its definitely unfixable and i wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Apple to sort it out, because they don't really care about these kind of issues, and blindly brag on every Keynote about how good it is (lol really blind arrogance)

Its like the brags about the new features in Mail app for iOS.. but never mentjon that the OSX mail app cant even default text font size, and when reply to a mail and make a new line, the text changes from lets say 15 px to some tiny 8 px.. you cannot control font sizes at all and its like a 1998 mail editor.. no improvements at all to that since about 2010.

Safari just cant display all websites, and Apple doesn't seem to be aware or care.

Sep 6, 2011 11:16 AM in response to PDaunno

I see this too.


Let's try to figure out if we have something in common:


1. I have cloned by HDD to an SDD recently

2. I installed safari omnibar recently

3. I have safari extention Adblock plus

4. I have upgraded to 10.7.1 just a few days ago


I am not sure when I started seeing this problem, but it started happening suddenly and is not going away with usual tricks like reboots and persmission fixes etc.,

Sep 6, 2011 1:40 PM in response to vrkiran

See example:


This is how flickr shows when I have a problem:


http://flic.kr/p/ajUwXr


Note how the top of the page that has flicker logo etc., is cut off. Also note the bottom where the blank space is. There is no way for me to resize the app in this state (other than un-fullscreen and re-fullscreen).


The reproduction is very simple: In any webpage while the safari is in fullscren, take the mouse all the way up so that the menu bar and safari bookmark bar shows up. Now take the mouse down again. Now when the menubar and bookmark bar auto vanishes, the safari window becomes smaller.


Definitely seems like a bug in calculating the window size post-auto-hide of menubar and bookmark bar.

Oct 28, 2014 9:13 AM in response to PDaunno

I have been experiencing this since upgrading to OS X Yosemite. I also keep software up-to-date.


Safari version: 8.0

Retina screen


Here is how Facebook looks like:

User uploaded file

Same happens with all the websites.


I have noticed that this doesn't happen instantly. It only occurs after a while. This error also seems to be Window-wide (happens to all tabs in the same window at once but may not happen to tabs in other windows). The only fix I found is closing window and reopening it.


Content that is cut off can be seen when over-scrolling so it's fine at the rendering level. Could it be a problem with the scroller? Some rounding error (that adds up over time) or something?

Nov 4, 2014 6:20 AM in response to PiusLT

Been having the exact same problem PiusLT. It would happen occasionally in Mavericks but after my update to Yosemite it happens all the time. Also keep all my software up to date and am running Safari Version 8.0. Hopefully more people will stumble upon this post so we can gain some traction and get the notice of some Apple engineers. Let me know if you find any other solution beyond closing and reopening the window (as that also works for me but is a bit cumbersome.)

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