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fullscreen without going fully fullscreen

hey all, just wondering if anyone has figured out how to get the videos to go fullscreen without chrome taking over the rest of my desktops. I am working from a multimonitor system and every time I press the fullscreen button, all of the other screens on my macbook pro and other displays grey out to the classic apple login background. is there a way to simply go fullscreen just on one display that anyone knows of?

browser: chrome comp: mbp 2012 13in

4 Answers

That's a known issue with OS X.

sad day. it is caused by osx then? or it is caused by the video player?

It's a system-wide "feature", e.g. it's by design.

but by treehouse or by apple? because this definitely doesn't happen with youtube... just wondering, not trying to point fingers.

A lot of people on Macs seem to be having similar issues in this reddit thread.

thanks for the reply

Dedicate a browser window just to playing the video then Zoom in with CTRL + Mousewheel. Not true fullscreen but it will do.

That's what I have been doing. I just wish the video player behaved more like youtube...