A lot of people are using 10" netbooks and the 600px vertical screen space is very limiting, especially when some of that space is taken up by browser toolbars and the Windows toolbar.
The perfect solution, IMO, is to use your browser full-screen(F11) and then auto-hide the Windows taskbar, letting you use the entire screen for browsing. Now you would think, with all the netbooks out there, that Microsoft would make sure that this works.
Surprise, surprise... it does not work! Put your browser full-screen and you will notice that you can no longer unhide the taskbar. This is the case in Windows 7 for all the browsers I've tried... IE, FF, Chrome, Opera. I'm not sure about Vista, as there is an option in Vista for the taskbar to be 'always on top' which I think might fix this issue... but for whatever reason MS removed this option in W7.
So, if I'm browsing full screen and want to unhide my taskbar, I need to press the Windows key on my keyboard. I really can't believe that MS has allowed somethng like this to be completely broken, with two features between their browser and OS that would naturally complement each other just not working together. The stupid thing is how easy this would be to fix.
Does anyone know of a workaround for this?
The perfect solution, IMO, is to use your browser full-screen(F11) and then auto-hide the Windows taskbar, letting you use the entire screen for browsing. Now you would think, with all the netbooks out there, that Microsoft would make sure that this works.
Surprise, surprise... it does not work! Put your browser full-screen and you will notice that you can no longer unhide the taskbar. This is the case in Windows 7 for all the browsers I've tried... IE, FF, Chrome, Opera. I'm not sure about Vista, as there is an option in Vista for the taskbar to be 'always on top' which I think might fix this issue... but for whatever reason MS removed this option in W7.
So, if I'm browsing full screen and want to unhide my taskbar, I need to press the Windows key on my keyboard. I really can't believe that MS has allowed somethng like this to be completely broken, with two features between their browser and OS that would naturally complement each other just not working together. The stupid thing is how easy this would be to fix.
Does anyone know of a workaround for this?
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