I'm probably late to the game, but if you have firefox 3 - check out the full screen mode

[episodic]

I've never been a fan of fullscreen modes in a browser, but it rocks now!

Press F11 and try it . . .

 

[thirtythree]

Hmm, too big for my taste... but I could probably get used to it

 

[silverpig]

The internet just got a whole lot bigger...

 

[Cabages]

ehh, cant get my start bar back up without hitting windows button...

ill pass

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

How does this work on a Mac? =[

 

[nboy22]

I believe this trick has been around for a while, at least I use it with IE at work and I deal mainly with winXP machines and IE 6

 

[yhelothar]

My IE7 fullscreen does the same.

I'm probably late to the game

Yeah.

 

[oynaz]

Yup. For once, M$ was first with a feature.

 

[episodic]

What is new about it is that when you bump the top, the full browser returns.

 

[sandorski]

cool

 

[Locut0s]

16/9 (well not exactly) 30 inch LCD + full screen mode = stretched internet. Too wide for my tastes. I keep my browser occupying about 1/3 of the horizontal width of this screen and the full height.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: episodic
What is new about it is that when you bump the top, the full browser returns.

it does that in IE7 too

 

[seemingly random]

I think it's a waste on a 'normal' landscape monitor. But it's pretty damn nice on a two monitor setup where one is in portrait orientation. Once you experience this you'll wonder how you ever survived without it.

 

[blurredvision]

IE has had a full-screen mode assigned to F11 for quite a number of years now, dating back to pre-IE6 if I'm not mistaken.

 

[0roo0roo]

needs to be animated in transition

 

[JasonSix78]

Originally posted by: episodic
I've never been a fan of fullscreen modes in a browser, but it rocks now!

Press F11 and try it . . .

Heh, pretty neat. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Lonyo]

Firefox 2 also has fullscreen mode when you press F11, and I think FF1 may have as well. FF2 keeps the address bar and tabs though.

 

[jjones]

This is new?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: astroidea

Originally posted by: episodic
What is new about it is that when you bump the top, the full browser returns.

it does that in IE7 too

it doesn't remove those ads though

 

[HannibalX]

IE has had full screen since version 4.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

Originally posted by: astroidea

Originally posted by: episodic
What is new about it is that when you bump the top, the full browser returns.

it does that in IE7 too

it doesn't remove those ads though

alt-f4 will remove any ad on your screen.

 

[KeithTalent]

It will probably make it crash, just like everything else. :disgust:

KT

 

[Ramma2]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

Originally posted by: astroidea

Originally posted by: episodic
What is new about it is that when you bump the top, the full browser returns.

it does that in IE7 too

it doesn't remove those ads though

IE7 Pro with AdBlock does!

 

[Vehemence]

Full-screen's been around for a while and is great.

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
It will probably make it crash, just like everything else. :disgust:

KT

Am I not the only one with this? I usually don't bring it up and stick with Opera or IE7 anyway, but FF3 crashes like crazy on me. Whatever though.

 

[RightIsWrong]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Firefox 2 also has fullscreen mode when you press F11, and I think FF1 may have as well. FF2 keeps the address bar and tabs though.

I may be wrong here....but I don't think that the revelation was the F11 key. I believe it was that everything including other open tabs are basically "auto-hide".