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Document that this extension is not necessary on Windows #4

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MarkTiedemann opened this issue Feb 9, 2020 · 2 comments
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Document that this extension is not necessary on Windows #4

MarkTiedemann opened this issue Feb 9, 2020 · 2 comments

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@MarkTiedemann
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On Windows, F11 will fullscreen both the browser and the current page in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. I think it would be polite to educate users about this in case they don't know. (There's no extension more minimal than no extension at all...)

On MacOS ^+⌘+F will fullscreen the browser in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. To fullscreen the page, ⇧+⌘+F can be used in Chrome (but not in Firefox and Edge). So again, I think people should be educated about this being possible natively in Chrome on MacOS. That being said, this extension would still serve a purpose, of course: you don't need to press two shortcuts, you can easily configure the shortcut, and you can click on the icon rather than using a keyboard shortcut if that is more convenient to you.

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On Windows, F11 will fullscreen both the browser and the current page in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. I think it would be polite to educate users about this in case they don't know. (There's no extension more minimal than no extension at all...)

Thanks for checking! I completely agree.

To fullscreen the page, ⇧+⌘+F can be used in Chrome (but not in Firefox and Edge)
That being said, this extension would still serve a purpose, of course: you don't need to press two shortcuts, you can easily configure the shortcut, and you can click on the icon rather than using a keyboard shortcut if that is more convenient to you.

Yep, also noticed that yesterday. I thought it made the extension useless on Chrome, but there are the details you mention that make it worth it.

One more detail: on Chrome on macOS, if you use ^+⌘+F to get full-page fullscreen, you can't use Esc to go out of the fullscreen mode (you don't get the temporary popup that warns about an app going full screen either). You have to press ^+⌘+F again.

But as you say; education of the default shortcut (no extension) should on top first in the description of the extensions.

@MarkTiedemann MarkTiedemann changed the title Document that this extension is not necessary in many cases Document that this extension is not necessary in some cases Feb 10, 2020
@MarkTiedemann MarkTiedemann changed the title Document that this extension is not necessary in some cases Document that this extension is not necessary on Windows Feb 10, 2020
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Another Firefox feature that might make the extension unnecessary: in the default Firefox fullscreen mode, when right-clicking a toolbar, a context menu item appears "Hide Toolbars".

This essentially achieves the same fullscreen as the full screen API, except that hovering the top of the screen will pop out the toolbars again.

See report on Firefox here.

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