[PLUG] how to exit full screen google maps

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 21:49:16 UTC 2016


As about reproducing it:
You could have clicked the full screen icon typically in the lower right 
corner of your video (player). Some players also respond to 'f' and toggle 
full screen mode.


On Thursday, June 16, 2016 08:57:41 AM Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> I must be dense.  The keyboard shortcuts list is very useful, but the
> behavior I see is still a mystery.
> 
> For one, I am using chrome, not firefox.
> 
> If I press F11, I get a full screen lacking any icons of use--no
> hamburger.  If I click on the traditional little box (between the - and the
> X) to choose full screen, the menu bar remains.  If I drag the window to
> the top of the screen I get full screen with the menu bar still present, so
> I can exit full screen using the little box.  How I got to the situation
> which prompted this entire exchange is a mystery--I cannot imagine that I
> inadvertently hit F11.  After I send this email I will try to duplicate the
> mystery situation--maybe it only happens when only one tab is present. BTW,
> dragging the menu bar to the top of the screen to produce full screen is a
> feature of the system, not just the browser.  It happens with all windows I
> have tried.
> 
> -Denis
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:27 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On 06/15/2016 04:34 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> > > Thanks.  That does it.  Toggles between full screen and not.  Is that a
> > > "everybody knows" thing?  What else does everybody know?  I want to be
> > > in
> > > the know.
> > > 
> > > -Denis
> > 
> > No such thing as "everybody knows."  As in all things, a bit of research
> > is all it takes to gain knowledge.  Like we used to say in my academic
> > days: "If we knew the answer, we wouldn't call it 'research'."
> > 
> > In Firefox, you can turn the "classic" menu on/off via instruction here:
> > 
> > 
> > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-to-the-file-edit-and-vi
> > ew-menus
> > 
> > A proper menu rocks.  That stupid 3-line icon is for tablets. bah.
> > 
> > F11 has been around since before Firefox.  Seamonkey, Mozilla,
> > Netscape...etc...Heck, I think NCSA Mosaic and then Netscape invented
> > most of them.  Newer browsers just stole...er...reused the old code.
> > 
> > F5  reload current tab
> > ctrl-/ctrl+ to decrease/increase font size
> > ctrl-tab to switch tabs
> > 
> > There's more here:
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.howtogeek.com/114518/47-keyboard-shortcuts-that-work-in-all-web
> > -browsers/
> > 
> > (some of these may not work as intended since the article was written.
> > YMMV).
> > 
> > Enjoy,
> > Ed
> > 
> > 
> > 
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