Opening Safari to Full Screen

[chscag]

Does that include Full Screen? Safari will open the way it was closed for me except when I choose full screen. Checking that box in system preferences doesn't matter since it's not for that anyway.

 

[S.SubZero]

Does that include Full Screen? Safari will open the way it was closed for me except when I choose full screen. Checking that box in system preferences doesn't matter since it's not for that anyway.

Any full-screen app I have, will open the way it was when OS X was shut down. Including Safari. I just did it now on my 10.9.2 Retina, tho I've been doing it since 10.8.

 

[chas_m]

For clarity in this thread, let's stipulate that "full-screen" and "Full Screen" are two different things:

"full-screen" -- I manually enlarged the Safari window so that it takes up as much room as possible.

"Full Screen" -- I pressed the opposing-arrows button in the upper right corner of Safari (or activated Full Screen View from Safari's menu), which replaces all elements of the desktop (including menubar and dock) with Safari.

This way we might avoid confusion over what exactly people mean. Not all versions of OS X support Full Screen (only Lion on up IIRC), so that might be introducing some confusion.

(for the record, I just tried this: selected the preference that re-opens Safari with the last page I had open on quit, made Safari Full Screen, quit it, then reopened it. It opened full-screen, not Full Screen)

 

[TattooedMac]

(for the record, I just tried this: selected the preference that re-opens Safari with the last page I had open on quit, made Safari Full Screen, quit it, then reopened it. It opened full-screen, not Full Screen)

Hence my BTT suggestion for Full Screen, which I think the OP is trying to accomplish. . . And yet haven't heard anything back as this is the easiest way of producing the desired affect.

 

[chscag]

For the record.... chas_m is correct and is what we were telling the OP from the start. Other replies which suggested "Full Screen" worked were in fact not using "Full Screen" but instead using "full screen".

(Thanks chas for explaining it.)

 

[toMACsh]

I guess that's one thing Windows has over the Mac. In Windows, if you close your browser in full screen it will open up in full screen the next time you open it.

Well, that's a matter of perspective or personal preference. There is only one application I ever want to use in true full screen mode, and that's Skype. Even then, there's one annoying thing about full screen; you can't see the time.

 

[chas_m]

The only apps I ever use in Full Screen are photo-editing or management apps like iPhoto/Aperture/Lightroom/Snapseed/et al because you always want to look at photos as large as possible. Otherwise, I find Full Screen a bit of a PITA feature because it blanks out my secondary monitor and thus don't use it much.

 

[TattooedMac]

The only apps I ever use in Full Screen are photo-editing or management apps like iPhoto/Aperture/Lightroom/Snapseed/et al because you always want to look at photos as large as possible. Otherwise, I find Full Screen a bit of a PITA feature because it blanks out my secondary monitor and thus don't use it much.

Are you on Mavericks Chas ?? Because full screen doesn't blank out the other Monitor anymore . . . From the keynote OS X Mavericks preview: Multiple Displays finally work like they're supposed to | iMore

First of all, multiple displays in Mavericks can work independently. Each monitor can have its own menu bar. Let me repeat that so it sinks in: every monitor can have its own menu bar. That's never happened in OS X before, without installing third-party software.

What does this mean in practical terms? It means you can have two applications running on two separate displays, each one with its own independent menu bar. That means a lot less moving the mouse back and forth: up until now, you've had move the cursor back to your "primary" display to access the menu bar for the app running on a second display. Inelegant and confusing.

The Dock is available in any screen to screen - so if you move your cursor to the bottom of the screen (or wherever you've designated the Dock to appear), the Dock will be available.

Full-screen app support finally works the way it's supposed to, as well. Go full-screen on one monitor and the app will, predictably, take over the display. But the second monitor is unencumbered. You can go full-screen with another app on that one, or just use it in regular windowed mode if you prefer.

Upgrade mate and you should be fine

 

[chas_m]

Thanks for this, it reminded me of what I was doing "wrong" -- if you don't *turn on menubars for all screens,* it behaves the way I described. Doh!

(this is under the Mission Control system preference btw, "desktops have separate spaces")

 

[johnlh]

I have a Macbook Pro running 10.9. 2 and have never had this problem, It is a 5-6 year old computer and I have always upgraded my applications. Good luck. I also have a one year old Mac desktop and have never had this problem with it. Clearly something is wrong unless you are not running the latest updates and application.

 

[Bmeister1996]

Before this post continues any further:
Let me say that there is a native shortcut to make your applications full-screen. It's Ctrl + Cmd + F. I know the goal is for applications to be default full-screen, but this will at least prevent you from downloading non-native applications solely for a shortcut that already exists.
Cheers.

Bmeister

 

[Diego1090]

The way I keep the full screen is instead of clicking the arrows at the upper right corner I just go to the end of the screen while it is minimized and expand it that way this keeps your upper tool bar constantly in view and when I log off Safari I just exit out prior to logging out of Safari.

Yes sometimes I have to increase the screen size but not always. I got over that the 2nd week I owned my Mac. ;D

 

[TattooedMac]

Before this post continues any further:
Let me say that there is a native shortcut to make your applications full-screen. It's Ctrl + Cmd + F. I know the goal is for applications to be default full-screen, but this will at least prevent you from downloading non-native applications solely for a shortcut that already exists.
Cheers.

Bmeister

So it is. Thx you learn something everyday. Ill still stick with BTT as there is a lot more I do with it than Full Screen.

 

[aussiegirl62]

OK - perhaps this is not a solution to what you are asking but I use Firefox on my iMac and it is always full screen! It kind of got around the issue of the non full screen Safari. I assume there is nothing "Wrong" with doing this???

 

[SoCurious]

bookmarks i use

I've pasted these commands into bookmark url's & use them a lot

javascript:window.moveTo(0,0);window.resizeTo(800,900)
javascript:window.moveTo(0,0);window.resizeTo(1600,900)
javascript:window.moveTo(800,0);window.resizeTo(800,900)

there are no spaces in the javascript commands -- some spaces are being added by the forum editor

my resolution is 1600 x 900
1st opens screen far left & half size
2nd opens screen far left & full size
3rd opens screen from the middle to the far right (half size)

& when i use the green zoom button at the top left of the page, it always toggles between a size i ignore and the last size i set using the bottom right corner handle

all my safari screens are almost always full size or half size to see 2 at a time

 

[pilotjohn]

For what it's worth, under OSX 10.7.5, if I open a safari window to Full Screen (ctrl+cmd+F) and quit safari (cmd+q) it always opens up again in Full Screen. If I close the open window (cmd+w) and then open a new window (cmd+n) it opens back up with the size of the last 'non Full Screen' window?

 

[toMACsh]

For what it's worth, under OSX 10.7.5, if I open a safari window to Full Screen (ctrl+cmd+F) and quit safari (cmd+q) it always opens up again in Full Screen. If I close the open window (cmd+w) and then open a new window (cmd+n) it opens back up with the size of the last 'non Full Screen' window?

And what about the new window you open after ctrl+cmd+F while the first window is still open? It's not always the best workflow to use tabs. The OP wants every window that opens to be full screen. I'm not sure that's possible though.