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Plainview - Fullscreen lightweight browsing experience
- Mathnerd314 16y agoOr you could just push F11... I get the feeling it's intended more for presenting than for actual browsing.
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- haxplorer 16y agoYeah. The developers at barbarian mentioned in a blog post that they started the project since they needed a browser with fullscreen support for mac to present slides. But I personally use this to browse things where I need concentration - like reading some serious stuff. And there is a "Kiosk mode" which would prevent me from doing an alt+tab. To come out of kiosk mode I would have to type my password once. When the password prompt comes up I would ask myself once if I need to really go to some other app now, or if I should continue concentrating on reading this for more time. This process makes me concentrate longer on what I'm reading.
- pavlov 16y agoFull-screen mode has traditionally been missing from Mac browsers. Safari and Firefox still don't have it, but Chrome does.
- mhansen 16y agoFirefox does. Safari still doesn't.
- wesley 16y agoUse Megazoomer to make any app full screen: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21275/megazoomer http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21275/megazoomer
- hkuo 16y agoYes, in Chrome, just hit Command-Shift-F for full-screen. It's awesome! Btw, this PlainView app appears to be 2 years old. How is this getting upvoted?
- nnutter 16y agoThere are also plugins for Safari that add it such as Saft.
- saurabh 16y agoI wish something like that existed for Windows.
- aw3c2 16y agoF11 usually.
- hipsterelitist 16y agoI actually use this on a daily basis and I must say it leaves something to be desired. It isn't stable and for whatever reason it'll often just drop external styling until reloaded.
- wdewind 16y agoSo just out of curiosity really, why do you keep using it? Do you have to or something?
- hipsterelitist 16y agoBecause there weren't any alternatives, but now that I see Google Chrome has restored full screen browsing on OS X, I doubt I'll be going back.
- tarkin2 16y agoVimperator gives a nice full screen experience, and good keybindings too. http://vimperator.org/screenshots/vimperator_hints.png http://vimperator.org/screenshots/vimperator_hints.png
- stcredzero 16y ago"Al Gore invented the internet, that was pretty cool, thanks Al. Steve Jobs invented the Cinema Display, boy did he make my internet look good. The real question is, how the hell did I make it this long without browsing icanhascheezburger in full screen glory? Thanks Barbarians, this is how it should be. – Josh Spear, founding partner, Undercurrent" This has to be ironic, but why in the world would they post it?
- hipsterelitist 16y agoBecause Josh Spear is a prominent member of this particular branch of the NYC social media cabal.
- yankeeracer73 16y agoPretty decent to use but may check out some of the other suggestions on here - bookmark organization leaves something to be desired, there's no auto complete of addresses, and given the keyboard centric navigation model, it would be nice to have keys to switch between windows vs. doing cmd-t then needing a mouse to choose a new window.
- Timothee 16y agoIf I remember correctly that's what pg used at Startup School to play his (of course) 280Slides presentation. I looked it up afterwards. I didn't know that Chrome had a fullscreen option. Makes Plainview less useful, though I like their super minimalistic approach.
- emehrkay 16y agoi am using it now. It is kinda buggy, but it is really dope. I love how it blurrs out everything else when you get a popup
- steadicat 16y agoThe Kiosk mode sounded really useful. Unfortunately it's quite easy to get out of it without a password if you know the ⌘/ shortcut: ⌘/ then ⌘^Esc.