When I use Safari it opens in a tiny little window. I use the green button to maximise but then the yellow button doesn't work and I cannot minimise. I have to shut Safari down completely in order to check Mail, use Word, etc. Can anyone help please?
Thanks for the update on your issue. If you're using the green maximize button to take a window full screen, then this same link provides the steps to follow for coming out of that mode as well:
Move a window: Click the window’s title bar, then drag it where you want it.
Manually resize a window: Drag the window’s edges (top, bottom, and sides).
Expand a window: Double-click an app’s title bar to expand the app window to fill the space between the Dock and the menu bar. If the Dock is on the side of your screen, the window expands to fill the space below the menu bar and to the side of the Dock. You can also Option-click the green full-screen button in the top-left corner of an app window.
To return to standard view, double-click the title bar, or Option-click the green full-screen button again.
If you double-click an app’s title bar, and the app minimizes into the Dock, the “Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize” option is set in Dock preferences. To instead expand the app window, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Dock, then deselect “Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize.”
Minimize a window: Click the yellow minimize button in the top-left corner of the window, or press Command (⌘)-M.
Some windows can’t be moved or resized, and may require that you perform an action or answer a question before you can continue with a task.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.
Hi Pedro - thanks for your reply, but it unfortunately it doesn’t really help me.
When I open Safari, a small window opens up in the bottom left corner of my screen just above the dock. It always used to open full screen. Red, yellow and green buttons are all evident and when I click the green button to maximise, the window then takes up the entire screen and the dock and menu bar have disappeared. By putting the cursor right up in the top left corner I can make the menu bar appear again but only to shut down Safari. The yellow button is now greyed out and inoperable. Therefore I can’t view any other windows while Safari is open. Very frustrating! This has only happened since the most recent update by Mac.
Do you have anything other advice to offer that can help me resolve this problem? I would be so grateful!
I am very frustrated with my MacBook Pro. I have the same issues and more. No need to explain these problems. I have been an Apple fan since the mid 80s. Owned at least 20 Apple devices since. At this very moment, own two iPads, two MacBook pros, one power Mac, 5 iPhones.
This is to Apple:
I am seriously contemplating to jump ship, and move over to Windows. Your new system "*****", and is full of unwanted little bugs, that at times want to make me trash your computers. Really!!!
I tried using Command + M and it didn't minimize the window, it just made it disappear. This has been going on for a long time now. Does anyone else have this problem, please help, Thanks guys and galsℹ
I tried the Command + Minimize and it still doesn't work for me. I can't minimize a document with the minimize button, the yellow one nor with the command. Both just make the document disappear. It's been going on too long and I've never got an answer that works regarding this questions. Is it only me?
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