How to: Maximize your Browser windows.

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Do you know that there is a way to maximize your browser windows? While browsing the net' today, I found this code:

<html>
<body>
<title>maximize</title>
<a href="javascript:moveTo(0,0);resizeTo(3000,3000);">Maximize </a>
</body>
</html>


It resizes your windows to "full screen." As if you were to expand your windows in Vista/XP.

Original link: Maximize your browser window on a Mac
(Contains original code, but I cleaned it up.)

Just letting everyone know!
 
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Part of using OSX is knowing that you don't have to always "Maximize" the window you're working in, nor feel as if you have to make it work like Winblows.
 
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Firefox's default behavior is to maximize the window when you click the green button anyway. It's just Safari that behaves differently.
 
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1. Pay $$$ for widescreen monitor
2. Find a way to fill your widescreen monitor with a single webpage that would have fit on your old 1024 x 768 tube ten years ago
3. ???
 
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You forgot 4. Profit!
 
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yea firefox does it automatically...safari likes to be diferent
 
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The whole point of OSX is to be able to multi-task very quickly and be very efficient in getting work done, thats why safari doesn't have a "maximize" feature. I switched from PC to MAC and I will never go back!
 
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I'm sorry but I do prefer to have my browser always maximized if I need to switch quick I will use command tab or expose all windows on my mouse.
 
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I'm sorry but I do prefer to have my browser always maximized if I need to switch quick I will use command tab or expose all windows on my mouse.

It's ok.....not everyone can be perfect. ;)
 
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Mmm. Big white spaces and text lines that are over a foot wide.
 
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I can understand not wanting to maximize all your windows in OS X, since it's better designed to work without them maximized, but what I don't get is the green button. It doesn't seem to do anything other than move and resize the window at random. In Windows, the maximize button at least performs a consistent function - it maximizes and then restores the window to its original size and position.
 
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I can understand not wanting to maximize all your windows in OS X, since it's better designed to work without them maximized, but what I don't get is the green button. It doesn't seem to do anything other than move and resize the window at random. In Windows, the maximize button at least performs a consistent function - it maximizes and then restores the window to its original size and position.

actually, its not random , it resizes your window so that is just wide enough for the web page.
 
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actually, its not random , it resizes your window so that is just wide enough for the web page.

In my experience, pressing it once moves the browser window to be just left of the center of the screen and resizes it to take up about 2/3 of the width and the full height. Subsequent presses do not restore the window to its original settings; instead, they simply switch between reducing the height of the browser window and keeping it at the full height.

And that's only for Safari. In Finder, it behaves differently. Supposedly it makes it the right size to fit the contents, but it seems more random than that, and subsequent presses only restore the original positioning some of the time. In iTunes, it switches between the normal and the mini player.
 
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weird....

In my experience, pressing it once moves the browser window to be just left of the center of the screen and resizes it to take up about 2/3 of the width and the full height. Subsequent presses do not restore the window to its original settings; instead, they simply switch between reducing the height of the browser window and keeping it at the full height.

And that's only for Safari. In Finder, it behaves differently. Supposedly it makes it the right size to fit the contents, but it seems more random than that, and subsequent presses only restore the original positioning some of the time. In iTunes, it switches between the normal and the mini player.

You're absolutely right! That is so weird - I never knew that! (about Safari). I don't usually maximize my windows, so that's why.
 

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