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Correct, but I didn't mean to refer to the green button. I was simply talking about double-clicking the Chrome title bar. By default, this expands Chrome to t

Correct, but I didn't mean to refer to the green button. I was simply talking about double-clicking the Chrome title bar. By default, this expands Chrome to the "appropriate" size for whichever website you have loaded in the current tab that moment. To get the normal maximize effect that one would expect from double-clicking a title bar in Windows or any Linux desktop environment, you have to hold down the "Shift" key while double-clicking. Actually, I'm not sure if it's Google or Apple who is responsible for this specific issue, but it's inconsistent either way. Chrome doesn't work like this on any other platform, and none of the other Mac applications I commonly use (e.g. IntelliJ, Atom, Terminal, Spotify) behave this way on OS X.

stephenr 11y ago
Double clicking the title bar has in my experience, always been a synonym for clicking the non-close, non-minimise/button, on any desktop OS since about 2000 (classic Mac OS had "minimise in place") - on Windows and most Linux DE's that means maximise. On OS X, it means zoom, which is deliberately app specific behaviour. I find very few apps that truly need the full size of the display, and those that do (i.e. IDE's, Photos/iPhoto, etc) usually do just that when you hit zoom. If you really want the browser window maximised, scale it up once and if it's a halfway decent Mac App it will retain that window size & position until you change it. Or make use of full screen mode for that app maybe?