1009618 - Fullscreen on Mac isn't Fullscreen

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 740148

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

Using Firefox nightly on Mac

View > Enter fullscreen


Results: we have the tabs and URL bar. They don't hide.

Expected: just the page content

On Linux, tabs and URL bar (actually all chrome) disappear and we reappear on demand.

This make it a problem to use Firefox as a presentation tool with a Mac.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Harper]

It is an issue I would like to be solved too, thanks for reporting it Hubert.

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

This is just the way the "native" fullscreen mode works on the Mac.  It works the same way in all other Mac browsers that I'm aware of.

What you see on Windows and Linux is the "non-native" fullscreen mode.  You also see it on OS X 10.6, which doesn't have support for the "native" mode.

We should *not* "fix" this bug.  Though one could argue that we should make the non-native fullscreen mode available as an option on OS X 10.7 and up.

Comment 3

[Hubert Figuiere [:hub]]

So we just want to copy bad stuff from other browser? Then maybe we should copy "presenter mode" that Chrome has and does this.... and treat it like a "Mac native" fullscreen mode too.

It is not like there is an option for that in the current Firefox.

The fact that the other two platform do it right......

Comment 5

[Francisco Lopes]

(In reply to Steven Michaud from comment #2)
> This is just the way the "native" fullscreen mode works on the Mac.  It
> works the same way in all other Mac browsers that I'm aware of.
> 
> What you see on Windows and Linux is the "non-native" fullscreen mode.  You
> also see it on OS X 10.6, which doesn't have support for the "native" mode.
> 
> We should *not* "fix" this bug.  Though one could argue that we should make
> the non-native fullscreen mode available as an option on OS X 10.7 and up.

Google Chrome presentation mode supports this just fine on native OS X fullscreen.