Q: Issue with menu bar on secondary monitor under Mavericks and Blip.tv fullscreen flash videos
Okay. I have an issue with Mavericks separate spaces for secondary and primary monitor modes. I think it is a very cool feature but the implementation has been really poor.
What happens is as follows: I move a Chrome or other browser window to the secondary monitor that is playing a flash video not from youtube but some other service. Then, when I click to make it full screen, the expected behavior would be that an overlay for the video covers the secondary monitor's current desktop (without creating a new space) and play the video full screen. It's the way it has always been and the way it happens on the main screen with no problem. However, on the secondary monitor, the menu bar does not go away and stays on top of the fullscreen video , blocking part of it and making the whole "full screen" quite pointless.
Reverting back to the old Lion & ML linked spaces on both monitors is out of the question since Youtube decided that HTML5 should force the OSX native fullscreen mode, which renders the secondary screen useless when active.
Is there any command that could help me with this issue? If not, I would like for Apple to address it. If you are going to have 2 menu bars that behave in a totally different way, users are going to be ****** and confused like I am.
Also, excuse me for my English. I am not a native speaker.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), May 2011 27'' iMac.
Posted on Nov 8, 2013 11:32 PM