Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

Full Screen Mode, Safari

Once Safari opens, you’re ready for your first full-screen experience.

1. Click the icon in the upper-right corner of the Safari window.

   With a smooth animation, your Mac hides the menu bar and the bookmarks bar. The only thing remaining is the address bar. The window’s edges expand all the way to the edges of the screen (Figure 0-2).

   Tip

   You may as well learn the keyboard shortcut for the Enter Full Screen mode: Control-⌘-F. The same keystroke leaves Full Screen mode, but you can also tap the Esc key for that purpose.

   

   Figure 0-2. This, ladies and gentlemen, is Full Screen mode, one of the flagship features of Lion. The idea is to fight back against the forces of window clutter that have been encroaching on your document windows for years now. Your actual work, your photo or Web page, fills every pixel of that giant screen you paid so much money for.

   You don’t have to panic, though. The menu bar is still available: Move the pointer to the top of the screen to make the menus reappear.

   For the next demonstration, call up an actual Web page, preferably one with a lot of text on it—www.nytimes.com, for example. Now suppose you want to scroll down the page.

2. With two fingers on the trackpad, drag upward.

   If you have a Magic Mouse, drag up with one finger.

   If you just tried this, ...