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Plainview - Fullscreen lightweight browsing experience

barbariangroup.com

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Or you could just push F11... I get the feeling it's intended more for presenting than for actual browsing.

Yeah. 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.

Full-screen mode has traditionally been missing from Mac browsers. Safari and Firefox still don't have it, but Chrome does.

Firefox does. Safari still doesn't.

Oh, sorry about that, my Firefox is slightly out of date (3.5.9) and doesn't seem to have full-screen mode.

Doesn't 3.5.9 have a security hole?

I think 3.5.8 had an exploitable use-after-free bug, but 3.5.9 fixed it.

Use Megazoomer to make any app full screen:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21275/megazoomer

Yes, 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?

There are also plugins for Safari that add it such as Saft.

I 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.

So just out of curiosity really, why do you keep using it? Do you have to or something?

Because 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.

"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?

Because Josh Spear is a prominent member of this particular branch of the NYC social media cabal.

The 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.

Pretty 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.

If 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.

Vimperator gives a nice full screen experience, and good keybindings too. http://vimperator.org/screenshots/vimperator_hints.png

I wish something like that existed for Windows.

F11 usually.

i 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

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