Can't get out of fullscreen mode! Help!
Had to go to Safari to do this. I started a you-tube video and it gave me an option to go to fullscreen. But there is no option to get out of it, and so I can't get to my Bookmarks, etc. Help!
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on 23 Dec, 2013 06:42 PM
Actually, there are two options to get out of fullscreen mode on YouTube: Button (see screenshot attached) and pressing Escape.
2 Posted by William D.Bande... on 23 Dec, 2013 08:15 PM
It appears that Chris (chtrusch),
[email blocked], wrote:
>Actually, there are two options to get out of fullscreen mode on YouTube:
>Button (see screenshot attached) and pressing Escape.
Whoa, this appears to be a TenFourFox (24) problem at large. Now
EVERYTHING in TenFourFox is in fullscreen mode and I cannot get to the
command line or my bookmarks. Pressing Escape doesn't work. The button
is not there because I can't get back to YouTube, because I can't get
back to my bookmarks. I tried deleting TenFourFox and re-installing it
from the download page, but everything is STILL in fullscreen mode and I
can't navigate. Evidently switching to the fullscreen mode in YouTube
put something in my computer which stayed there when I deleted
TenFourFox. Whatever it is, I need to get rid of it, and this may be
something which needs to be fixed so TenFourFox does not allow the
fullscreen mode to persist.
The only way I can do any work is using Safari, but that doesn't have all
my bookmarks. Thank heavens that my email program is not web-based, or I
would not even be able to communicate with you about this.
Still need help! Thanks,
Bill (bilbee)
3 Posted by William D.Bande... on 23 Dec, 2013 08:54 PM
It appears that Chris (chtrusch),
[email blocked], wrote:
>Actually, there are two options to get out of fullscreen mode on YouTube:
>Button (see screenshot attached) and pressing Escape.
Whoa, this appears to be a TenFourFox (24) problem at large. Now
EVERYTHING in TenFourFox is in fullscreen mode and I cannot get to the
command line or my bookmarks. Pressing Escape doesn't work. The button
is not there because I can't get back to YouTube, because I can't get
back to my bookmarks. I tried deleting TenFourFox and re-installing it
from the download page, but everything is STILL in fullscreen mode and I
can't navigate. Evidently switching to the fullscreen mode in YouTube
put something in my computer which stayed there when I deleted
TenFourFox. Whatever it is, I need to get rid of it, and this may be
something which needs to be fixed so TenFourFox does not allow the
fullscreen mode to persist.
The only way I can do any work is using Safari, but that doesn't have all
my bookmarks. Thank heavens that my email program is not web-based, or I
would not even be able to communicate with you about this.
I tried another "workaround." I went to Safari and got up a YouTube page
on Safari. I put it in fullscreen mode and then used "Escape" to get it
out of fullscreen mode. That worked for Safari. But when I went back to
TenFourFox it was still in fullscreen mode, not on a YouTube page, and no
way to get onto YouTube again, or to get anywhere else.
Still need help!
Bill (bilbee)
4 Posted by Robin on 29 Sep, 2014 08:14 PM
I am having the same full screen problem with the 31.1.1 version of Ten Four Fox. Most times I can escape by pressing 'shift-alt-w' but not always. Firefox is similarly affected by this full screen bug; Camino and Safari are not. I tried going back to an earlier version of Ten Four Fox but that just led to a full white screen with a cartoon 'oops' on it.
5 Posted by Robin on 29 Sep, 2014 08:55 PM
Apologies; the keys I press are 'shift-command-w'
6 Posted by Robin on 30 Sep, 2014 09:18 AM
Although I could exit a full screen window using 'shift-comand-w' I did not want to have a full-screen at all. I have gone through all 3 of the Libraries chucking out anything that said 'TenFourFox- Mozilla-Firefox' Then I reinstalled TenFourFox 31.1.1. So far TenFourFox is behaving fine with no full screen windows. (Of course I made the mistake of throwing out the baby with the bath water and deleted all my bookmarks.)
Support Staff 7 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on 02 Oct, 2014 04:37 PM
Hello Robin, if you experience the same problem again, and it's on Firefox, too, please refer to Mozilla or report it at Bugzilla.
8 Posted by Lois Anderson on 19 Nov, 2014 06:14 AM
Try holding down command button then at same time press down esc. key.