youtube fullscreen in safari

hey guys. I just want to ask you if it is normal to have fullscreen on youtube like this:



sometimes it would be really nice to have it really fullscreen and not just in safari window

My fullscreen view from Safari takes up the entire screen and the menu bar/dock are not visible. I'm wondering if you have any youtube related extensions installed. So then, do you? It might be the reason for this happening. I know I had a couple installed and for some reason, videos wouldn't even load. When I removed or disabled the extensions, everything went back to normal.

I have only Click2Flash installed but I doubt, that it is the reason for this, as it just blocks the flash if I don't want it... and I didn't even find somebody else with this issue weird...

There should be a fullscreen button on the YouTube video itself. I just click on it in the bottom right corner of the video frame and it overtakes the entire screen. Do you not see this button?

well, on screenshot you can see how it looks, when I click on the fullscreen button

I went to that page on YouTube. Hit Full Screen. Here is what happens here. Whole screen. Dock is gone.

well that's weird then...i tried it with many videos and fullscreen in HTML5 playback looks like screenshot in my first post in this thread...

That's a limitation of the video implementation in HTML5 - no true fullscreen. Only Flash videos can actually take up the entire screen while you'll be limited to the size of the browser when viewing HTML5 videos. You really only have two options - leave the HTML5 beta or learn to love the lack of true full screen.

oh, that's a shame then...well never mind...I will stick to flash playback then

thank you very much guys for your answers

vansmith said:

That's a limitation of the video implementation in HTML5 - no true fullscreen. Only Flash videos can actually take up the entire screen while you'll be limited to the size of the browser when viewing HTML5 videos. You really only have two options - leave the HTML5 beta or learn to love the lack of true full screen.

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Thanks for that Van. Had not been checking the HTML5 side there on YT!