So I’m back to using Safari. At least for a while. I’ve tried just about every new release that has come out over the last couple years, including the betas. This one seems actually useful. But one thing that really bugs me is the behavior of the zoom button. Actually, I’d consider it a flaw of OS X as a whole – namely that every app seems to implement the zoom button differently. For many, if not most apps, it functions as a “maximize” button, much as you’d see on Windows. For others, it seems to try to figure out how big the window should be based on the content. This is what Safari does. And it bugs the crap out of me, because it’s always way smaller than I want it. I understand that “maximize” behavior may not be too workable for someone with one of those massive cinema displays, but whatever it does now sucks, IMHO.
Anyway, long useless rant and lead up to how to fix this. This isn’t even something I came up with by myself, but found on some forum somewhere. Sorry for not attributing the source, but it’s long gone, and isn’t exactly rocket science anyway.
So here it is. Drag this link to the bookmarks bar at the top of your browser. Click it and voila! Full Screen. Well, maximum size Safari for your screen anyway. You could probably hack this a bit more to set it to a specific size you want, if you’re not into the whole full screen thing.
Seems like you need to close and reopen the browser, or at least start up a new window for it to work, but after that, it’s fine. Actually, it seems like you have to close THIS page for it to work. Something about the link being on the page messes up the bookmark??? Not sure. But as soon as I re-open this page with this link on it, the bookmark fails. Odd. OK, I got it. It doesn’t work when there is a second tab open. That stinks. Anybody know a workaround?