Can I restore previous functionality of the Maximize button in Yosemite

You do realise thats what I was refering to with bettertouchtool?

You cant do that suggestion without BTT or similar 3rd party app..

I think after a few weeks I'll get used to press Option to maximize a window, another thing to learn.

The question is: What are the advantages of this change? I'm sure I'll be called a "hater" but only see problems, one more button, one more thing to learn, a waste of time.

I don't like the change at all and would like maximize to be the default; let "make a new work space and move my window there and do a slow animation and you can't switch to any other app without incurring another slow nauseating animation" be the one you have to hold option for.

Im my opinion the change makes sence... Green to Maximise screen next to the other buttons...

Zoom view (can be used with alt) but more importantly it works with DOUBLE CLICKING Top toolbar! This is MUCH easier than moving mouse/trackpad to the little green dot... (Yes I am aware that not all 3rd Party apps have the double click enabled.. But I really believe it will soon be part of the protocol/user experience in all OSX apps...) Anyways it practically works in almost all new apps...

I think people are just so used to their ways they are SOOO against something mildly new... Even if it increases performance...

I mean its not like they pulled a Windows 8 on us... They enforced tiny little changes... You will find there are intuitive solutions, to work more effectively

Can someone explain to me what the issue is for not being able to double click titlebar of an app? Is it not easier? I mean think it about it from a neutral point of view, and not from a historical creature of habit mindset...

We cant never enforce positive change because older users are soo against anything mildly new or different.

Lets look at it more objectively:

Double clicking space for zoom view -> VS <- Clicking green button for max screen.... Ease of activation of process

Its a no brainer... Its a heck of a lot easier to just double click title bar...

I prefer this... Its a very welcome change!

Yes Zoom view is more effective proccess... And they have made it easier to activate...

Hi,

The change is still a little cumbersome. In detail, some apps do not have a title bar (example: the Notes App which is an Apple app) and others do not behave as expected or make it very difficult to click on the title bar (aka. default mode in Firefox). It's probably best to leave some freedom to users with these changes with a preference option. One smart move would have been to chose CTRL as the modifier key instead of ALT, then maybe we could have right-clicked the green button to get the old behavior back...

best

ST

Fair point.

I know you want apple to change things..

But here is a solution:

Download BetterTouchTool you can make right clicking green button smartzoom screen... Amongst lots of other benefits like Windows type window snapping i.e. drag to right to take right half of screen for the app.....

BetterTouchTool is best customisation tool for a Mac... I swear by it... Give it a go

http://www.boastr.de

I found this change to be a hasty shade of winter. Apple does a lot of things well, but what they don't do well is thorough testing, or more importantly, research. They pretty much just do what they assume customers need/want. Apple cannot deny they didn't think about the fact that for users with multiple screens, when clicking the maximize button, the spare screens go black. Out of the simplest things that any tester would have caught, Apple didn't catch this! My perception of Apple's research abilities and careful testing is totally gone.

I have to agree with that... multiple screen situation with maximise screen is ridiculous..

On a single screen I also dont like that it launches full screen mode into a 'new' space and mission control becomes useless...

That's exactly what happened to me. When I upgraded to Yosemite I couldn't work anymore. It was absolutely impossible to work with two screens. It was so bad and annoying that I was thinking of switching back to Windows. One single feature had turned the whole system completely useless. But fortunately, the guys here told me about the BetterTouchTool, and it was so good that two days later I went to the Apple store and bought a new MacBook Pro. My mood changed completely. It is sad that we have to get a third party app to make things work. The work of Apple in this last OS is horrible, but I solved my problem and now I'm enjoying it.

Sorry if it sounds like a commercial but that's what happened :-)

Thank You! A real solution!

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Mike9586

I used to use that feature a lot too. I did prefer the green zoom button and fullscreen buttons to be separate. However there is kind of a work around. If you install BetterTouchTool http://www.boastr.net you can set up a macro so when you say right click on the green button it will zoom (or as I have it, when I double click on the title bar).

BetterTouchTool is really useful, you can get an app for the iPhone too so you can use that to control the Mac as well.

Clicking the green button while holding Option works for me in some programs but not in Office 2011. Double clicking the title bar does not work at all. I normally use this to minimize a window but changed my preferences to remove this option but now nothing happens.

Thanks guys.

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There is one much better way - stop using this ******** crApple OS and move on to Windows 8.1 - so much faster, so fewer problems.

It sure would be nice if Apple offered an option such as this.

I found this excellent illustration on a Facebook page. Credit to Byron M.

Please click on the graphic to read the important details.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Many users do not like this change of green button to Yosemite, which maximizes in full screen the windows. I found an awesome feature in order to max a window but not in full screen.

So here you are: Double click of right and left mouse button simultaneously!

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