Most new Mac switchers fired complaints on the strange behavior of green 'maximize' button that fails to maximize window to full screen. If you're one of them, it's time to rest assured and check out this nifty little freeware: Right Zoom.
"This free tool fixes an inconvenient behavior of green Zoom button in Mac OS X. It will always expand windows on a full screen instead of strange resizing", explained its developer, Blazing Tools Software.
The installation of this application is pretty straightforward: only unzipping and double-clicking are needed. However, as this application is running on background, you need to stop it by executing Terminal command: killall RightZoom
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In one word: terrific!!! This is what I always needed for (against) that Finder behaviour!! Thanks a lot ;-)
Thanks for sharing!
"...strange resizing" Where???
Love it. thanks for sharing!
Morons... the green button has a functionality. This is not f* Windows NT. It doesn't mean full screen. It means zoom. Developers are supposed to make sure it resizes the window to fit its contents. Just because developers suck, doesn't mean you should.
Agree with Joel. Take Safari for an example: If you click the zoom button, the window will zoom to fit the size of the web page.
A zoom button is valid, but so is a maximize button. I have my MacBook connected to a 19" CRT, and I tend to maximize apps that live on the smaller screen. Occasionally I will slide a window over, and maybe use the zoom button. Now when I want to slide the window back to the smaller screen, it's nice to be able to click a button that automatically makes the application full-screen. iTunes fails at this, so I'm giving this app a shot.
Hmm... I agree with wihel1812. If that doesn't do your purpose, I suggest you to hold Control and two fingers scrolling you know, the thing you do when you zoom in closer. That should be really enough for simple things such as reading small texts and etc.
Why are mac users so angry? You want more marketshare, but don't want people to feel more comfy switching over? To be honest, I was thinking of returning my mac JUST for this reason. Having a billion windows open (like I always do) gets ridiculously confusing unless you have a full screen open in the foreground. I use this app in combination with WITCH...which is way better than alt-tab on a PC. There ARE some features on Windows that are actually useful... *gasp*
well... the thing is, that on a Mac everything is different. The workflow is totally different, and with all that drag&drop (which works in to and from nearly ANY window with nearly ANYTHING) it actually makes sense to not use fullscreen-windows. On small laptop-monitors, I agree that sometimes fullscreen is nice, but when you start working on 22" or bigger monitor, fullscreen just sucks once you got the hang of how a mac manages it windows (i.e. Expose, Spaces and so on). I once agreed with all you guys that want fullscreen, and especially for iTunes I still do, but for other things, the standard-behaviour is way superior to full-screen-stuff... but it needs you to lay aside what you know about "windows" and working with a computer and re-learn it. but believe me: IT IS WORTH IT!
Thanks for the heads up on that! Finally a fix.
@ Joel: I think everyone has allready noticed that os x automatically resizes to fit a screan's content... BUT in a Finder window with over 20 files/maps or something like that, the window resizes to a format where scrolling is needed to get a sight on ALL the files. I think in such cases this app is really handy AND that in this cases too, os x's developers s*ck a bit. BUT you should never use words like 'moron' if you don't even know what people really mean... And since when is 'zooming' the same as 'resizing' eh???
@Joel - Cool down please... yes I see times where the "fit" resize could be useful but in many cases I'll need the fullscreen. I never understood why Apple didn't add this extra functionality with a alt+(zoom button)... should be a easy task.
Too true! It isn't called the "maximise" button. Plus, how the hell do you plan to switch between modes on Calculator then? P.S. I hope this post doesn't get deleted because I think this site is for windows users who are suing a Mac and need to be taught the simplest and stupidest of things. Last time I said anything it was deleted. Psht. I do like the wallpapers, though. It's the only reason I come back.
The wallpapers sure are great. Fullscreen very rarely makes sense in non-power user mac apps, and the Apple HIG specify to suit apps to the 80% non-power-users. Fullscreen is great for watching a DVD or playing a game etc., but in that case a complete display capture is usually suitable. The key (that is the correct term) window has a deeper shadow (from Leopard onward) and different colouring. It is always pretty clear which window is key, and the menu bar is key-app-contextual in every mac app, so you would rarely go wrong. Spaces is great if you have too many windows, Exposé likewise. Like most stupid GUI elements, a maximise button would not be hard to implement for Apple; that's still not much of a reason to do it. Sure they *could* do a start menu if they wanted to. The annoying thing about mods like these is that they ruin the integrity of the GUI. The green zoom pebble has a designated function, and the consistency across different computers would be very poor if a lot of people applied mods such as these. Sure, windows users don't want to relearn how to do things; but things get much more complicated for these un-inquiring beings if all personal computers behave differently. If 15% of all macs were to hide windows instead of minimising them when the yellow pebble is clicked, or if windows apps started resizing to fit the context when you hit fullscreen, you wouldn't know how to use *any* system. Mod makers: add functionality, f.ex. a fourth pebble, instead of screwing with the one in place.
I too was frustrated with this "maximize" button when I first switched to Mac. A couple days of using a Mac I realized it's not a MAXIMIZE button, but rather a button (as Joel said) to make the window contents fit perfectly, which in a way is better than maximize once you get used to managing windows on a Mac vs managing them on Windows. For web browsing I like full screen, so I just resize the window, and it sticks to that size next time I open the browser.... not really that difficult.....
I bought this stupid 20'' imac yesterday and I am about to go mad as I cannot see the full page in the web browser. I just can't understand it. What am I supposed to do with the fx nonsense white columns on both sides of the actual page when I go to so-called full screen?How the hell can you call this fullscreen? I cant believe this, I just cant believe this...
Well, the problem is that zoom doesn't work consistently. Even in OS X supplied applications. If Safari zoomed to fit the page consistently I wouldn't have a problem, but it doesn't, thus I want more control. go to http://www.nikonusa.com/Assets/Digital-SLR/25438-Nikon-D60/PDF/25438_D60_brochure.pdf and then hit the zoom. My Safari window actually got smaller, doing exactly the opposite of what I wanted. This kind of erratic behavior is what drives people to look for mods.
Consistency is the main point here. So you say zoom should adjust the window so it *fits*... Another example of what drives people nuts is Apple's own inconsistency. Click on Zoom in iTunes. It minimizes to a mini player. What if I'm in the iTunes store and I want to see more within one window? The only option I have is to manually resize the window. IMHO Apple should have used a short-cut key combination to minimize to the mini player instead of overloading the zoom button. It's confusing.
If you want fullscreen view on any app on your Mac just so you don't get confused about what window you're working in, why don't you give Isolator a try? It should do the trick for you. (See the 30 menubar applications section on this site.) ——————— @ Yu Guli: if you don't like the white bars on the left and right side of a webpage layout when you resize the window to a broader size than the original web content, but want to zoom in on a page just to make it fullscreen... Well, let's just say the developer of that website centered the contents with user-friendliness in mind. It is done because in full-screen mode without zooming in, the page content would otherwise sit at the left side of your screen with a broad white bar at the right. Most of the time that bar would be wider than half the screen. So at Apple they probably thought it more stylish to resize the browser window to the page content. I think they have a point there.
@ Sajjad K: I'm sorry you do not seem to be more understanding of people who are learning something new for the first time. I guess you will never try anything new out of fear you will have to (quote) learn the simplest and stupidest of things (unquote)? I am a new Mac owner myself , switched from PC only a few weeks ago. Personally, I really like to learn something new, even if it means learning simple, stupid things all over again. For instance, on my iMac I missed the 'Home' and 'End' buttons very much, and it was a site very much like this one that led me to the Command+Left/Right Arrow key combination. Simple? Stupid? Perhaps. But perhaps this site is for experienced Mac users and newbies alike. Can't we all just relax and learn from each other without looking down on anyone else? Makes things a lot simpler, but certainly not stupid IMHO. ;)
@joel, @Sajjad K, This is the primary reason I left Mac the first time, I've just recently bought a mac for the second time(I'm a developer), and I have to say the arrogance of the vocal users is not something I miss. Is it really that hard to believe that someone might actually WANT to expand their screen all the way, their reasons for wanting it might be completely different than yours. And that leads me to the fundamental reason of why I had my initial issues with OS X in the first place, the OS constantly dictates to you, how you should think and work. To do things any other way is EXTREMELY difficult. I've used alot of windowing systems(Linux based, Windows, etc.) and I've never felt as locked down as I have on OS X, and even given all that I've still had a decent opinion of it(its still one of the best development platforms available), but the fanatics, oh man...you guys are doing the community a disservice. I'll leave with this quote, I know Apple doesn't believe in it, but I do: having an OS that conforms to your wants and needs rather than dictating them to you is the true mark of a superior OS
First off, thanks for the link. Very happy with this little app so far. ModuLIZER got it right. Apple should add this function to ALT and we would shut up. We would get both zoom and maximize. Also, zoom does not always work right even in Apple's own Finder, when the folder content would fit on a full screen, but you have to scroll in a "maximized" window or resize it manually.
Loving it. Simple as that. I use a 30" screen and even then it's the one application Mac should provide standard with new releases. Yes I'm a switcher but sometimes not everything Wintendo has to offer is evil.
Loving it. Simple as that. I use a 30" screen and even then it's the one application Mac should provide standard with new releases. Yes I'm a switcher but sometimes not everything Wintendo has to offer is evil.
I'm satisfied with the default zoom button, although I'm aware that for some people used to MS Windows a "maximize" button can be missed. Remember that Mac OS allows a heavy use of drag and drop, and a maximized windows is definitely an obstacle to this practice.
That's cool...thanks for sharing :)
wow!! finally!! thanks man!
This has been pissing me off for years, making windows feel a lot better when it comes to window switching etc... but this is awesome
This is what i've always been looking for since i got a mac. THANK YOU
Search for wrongzoom, see the forks for a working 64-bit SL version with the swizzle code converted over to the objc 2.0 abi. Been out for years and solves all problems.
Have to agree with Marlon. The experienced Mac users can be so annoying. If Mac becomes as popular as Windows, what will they do?? Maximizing a window should be a one click solution. Why not have the Zoom button AND a maximize button *gasp*, way too much freedom for a user. An OS shouldnt dictate, the user should. The only reason Macs are more stable is because they lost the race early on and Windows got overexposed to malicious coders. If Mac had won the race early on, Windows would be more stable.
I don't know why you are calling it "strange resizing" all what the green button does is expand your window according to its content, if there was enough content in a window to cover the whole screen then the green button WILL make the window in the size of your screen. I find it a very reasonable strategy on Apple's side.
I always keep some of my applications at full-screen. It's not about isolation, it's about screen real-estate. My problem isn't how the green button works (you can option-click or cmd-click and that usually works anyway) but what I hate is that there is no way to lock the window in place. When I am remote-logging in and my clicks are lagging, or sometimes just after a careless click on the title bar, the window will jump out place and I either need to move it back, or hit the green button twice. I'd like to be able to lock certain apps in place. These days I use Quicksilver and Cmd-Tab to move around windows, and I want them to stay where I put them.
problem fixed! wonderful
Joel said: "Morons... the green button has a functionality. This is not f* Windows NT. It doesn't mean full screen. It means zoom. Developers are supposed to make sure it resizes the window to fit its contents. Just because developers suck, doesn't mean you should." Just because developers suck, the absence of a genuine maximizing button is a flaw of Apple OS.
I also am frustrated by the behavior of application windows in Mac OS X. The green pebble doesn't maximize the window to full screen but, as others have pointed out, zooms in to display (sometimes) the entire contents of the window. I googled information on this topic which led me to this excellent website. Yay Google! I just discovered that holding down the shift key when clicking the green pebble mimics the functionality of the M$ Windows maximize/restore button. I am using Mac OS X 10.5.8 with no add-ons currently installed. This is a great website! Very informative and helpful!!
Honestly, you should have 4 buttons. I agree with both sides of the argument here. The Zoom button works great for dragging and dropping, however when I'm viewing the web I'm not dragging and dropping so I want a maximized screen. I'm a hard core Windows User and Linux user. Mac's OS is a clear rip of the Linux OS, but it misses certain things. As Marlon said, it locks you in, tries to make you confirm. Maybe some people like to be told HOW to operate, so they don't have to think or figure anything. Hand it to them and they're happy, so they follow. I prefer to lead, I don't want to be told HOW I should use my computer, I'm a developer and I'll use it as I see fit. I'll leave with my own personal quote. Each OS has it's place and it's uses. A good developer and user will understand those places and uses and choose the right tool for the job.
Go to any Apple store and look at the handheld device used by reps to ring sales. It is not an iPhone, it is a Windows based device. So when it comes to critical functionality even Apple uses Windows. For fun, I recommend Disney World.
Kevin L is correct that there should be 4 BUTTONS. A computer should make life easier and developers should accomodate this by allowing for user choice. A user might prefer a window to go "PC full screen" one minute and prefer it to go "Mac full screen" the next. The USER shold have the choice and it should be easilly accessible and not require a trick or download. The Shift/Green Pebble on a Mac is too concealed. Having used both Mac and PC's, it's obvious that the PC developers "listen" better to it's market, but, deliver a mish mash of products that "bump into each other" and sometimes cause problems, but, they are more flexible. Mac on the other hand develops great products, but, sort of control how far a user can take things. Apple tends to take the approach of "telling" its customers what they need. This limits problems, but, is also a bit arrogant and frustrating to users. Apple intentionally does not "listen" to customers wishes because it wants control. Hence, the maximize button on a Mac sies to the windows content and doesn't annex the entire screen because Mac thinks you will want to see other screens. That's true sometimes and not others.
Where do I start? ... The Mac OS is the best on the planet, but there are some features in Windows and Linux that I wish OS X would incorporate. Maximize is one of them. I like to focus on just one application at a time unless I am performing a task that requires me to see windows of multiple applications simultaneously. If I want a window to be taller I resize it from the bottom right corner. If I want it to take up the entire screen I use the green Zoom button. When I hit the Zoom button hoping for the window to fill the screen and it doesn't, I get a bit annoyed. Because then I have to drag the window to the top left corner of the screen and then grab the bottom right corner and stretch it to fill the screen. I am obsessive compulsive, so when aligning the window I have to make sure the window is pixel-perfect. (Linux windows snap to the edge of the screen so no manual alignment is necessary) The basic problem with having a button that responds differently on an app-by-app basis is that the user will often hit it expecting one result and then get frustrated when it doesn't behave as anticipated. Eventually the user may come to memorize which applications expand to full-screen and which only expand vertically, and frustration will slowly subside, but never fully disappear because there is that extra step required of asking oneself "is this a fully expanding app or just a vertically expanding one?" But there is hope! Developers can begin including a preference in their apps for the way resizing is handled. They can add a preference to enable snapping to the edge of the screen as well. Or maybe this fantastic piece of software that Blazing Tools has granted us will catch on and eventually grow to address all of the shortcomings of our favorite (but imperfect) operating system. ;-) I can wish, can't I? I hope that one day OS X will include these options natively as well as universal keyboard shortcuts for moving, maximizing, and scaling windows. This would eliminate the need to waste time moving the cursor to a specific area of the screen to accomplish these common tasks. And one last gripe (then I'm done, I promise!): what's with that annoying 3-pixel high gap at the bottom of most applications that remains even after you maximize them?! (People who keep their dock hidden will know what I'm talking about) OK, it's all off my chest. Thanks for reading. And thank you to the developers of this freeware!
Thank you for this freeware! Am a new Mac user, and that green pebble was indeed frustrating me because it wasn't doing what I had expected it to do (that is, to maximise my window). Now...if only there was a delete button somewhere...(and I don't mean the backspace key).
Just found this site and haven't even looked at any other threads yet but I love it. Turned on my mac book pro today to surf the web, hit the green button, an the screen got smaller. rrrrrrrrr. Been a Max user for about 6 months now, have owned an operated many pcs over the years including network at my business. while there are many great functions with mac os, it is OVERRATED. This thread is a perfect example. Number 1 - I have always operated several programs at a time and usually have all maximized to full screen at all times. In windows, this works great, and you can click on them in the tray at bottom to see them, or hit alt tab. works great. I'll probably down load this handy little ap. 2 - File management in mac is silly - examples are trying to organize my hard drive, find things on hard drive or use finder in general. Maybe I'm just not getting it, but when I run finder and I'm very specific a million things come up. it's such a pain 3 - mac users are snobs - just read this thread and you'll see all you need to know. I have one mac user at work and he's just like the mean people in this thread - sort of like a liberal elitist in many ways - he knows whats good for me, and so does apple. "its better, and that's just they way it is" he'll say. Well, can you take a minute to show me? "Just figure it out, it couldn't be any easier on a max?" Gee thank you. Maybe mac people are so cranky because their market share is so low. Any mac seems to refuse to build in another mouse button just because they invented a one button mouse 25 years ago. So you have to go buy after market mice with cool functions. And don't even get me going on file management with Itunes, what a friggin joke.
Wake up Apple, the green circle STINKS and everyone knows it. I use both apples (2 of them) and windows (1 of them), and I gotta say I can't stand the Apple Operating system, and this is the biggest reason. The 2nd biggest reason is the bouncy icons on the bottom that do everything but open inside of 30 seconds. Even Google's claim to fame that Chrome opens super fast, is not true when you open it for the first time after restart. It takes forever. Developers need to conform to people's screen sizes no matter what they be, not the other way around. To have a button where the user caters to a developer is just idiotic. Surprised Jobs, whose iPhone essentially stands as perfect proof that the be-all-end-all in design is simplicity for the users, ought to be the first in line to understand this concept. Macs are nice on the outside, and I gotta say, I HATE them on the inside, that means YOU little green circle, and YOU buggy iTunes that takes forever to start, and forever to load anything when navigating around.
I started working on PC' s about 1995 and have personally put together about 2500 of those machines. I got my first Mac about 5 years ago (MAC MINI) and started to realize very quickly how superior the OS is, there are a lot of hidden gems if you are patient. But you must do your own research, Apple' s site has a lot of info not to mention, you have been able to look topics up in browsers since 1995, I think in general people just like to belly ache and complain and have everything be automatic etc... Do a little research and you will find that there are endless things you can do on the mac, and it is built into the system, you don' t even have to add third party software. Peace
Any OS can be frustrating if you do not know the basics.
I agree with Doug, mac users and Apple in general are elitists, plus they never listen. I got a mac after a gap of around 12 years during which I went from Win95 all the way to Windows 7. After Win7 the mac is just a pretty computer. Oh, and I tried doing shift-GREEN-PEBBLE and it just does the same thing, the zoom. I'd hate to install an extra thingybob to do basic stuff like that. blah! i reckon we should all ditch computers and go back to farming.
OK, I see, the Mac does stuff differently than the PC and Mac users are proud of the difference. So far so good. But why restrict someone who really likes the "maximize" button to use it the way Macs dictate it to you? Or: why oh why can I configure a double click on the title bar to "minimize" the window but I can not configure it to maximize (as it is possible on Windows and Linux)? I don't get the concept of restricting anyone to use a "standard" way of doing things. Everyone is an indiviuum and should be able to customize as much as possible. The computer is nothing more than a tool. It should not be a religion. If you want to use it "the mac way" - ok fine - do so! But if you are like me and like some aspects of the Mac OS but would like to customize others, then why should I not be able to. After all it's my computer! I bought it with my money and I don't see why any fanboy should dictate me how I am supposed to use it. Chris (BTW: If you wonder which OS'es I'm using: Ubuntu and Windows at work, Mac OS X and Ubuntu on my private computers)
To make it even SIMPLER without the installation of any software, just drag ANY WINDOW and pull it to the upper edge of the menubar. TA-DA! It just works... =)
Great stuff!! Thx.
Forgot that I have installed BetterTouchTool to perform that operation. Sorry mate! ;-)
I am relatively new to Mac but after about a month I have realized that I much prefer the green zoom circle to the Windows maximize. When I browse the web I want it fullscreen, so I manually maximized it in firefox once and now it is always fullscreen. Sometimes I want it half size to do other things, so I hit the little green circle, and then resized it the way I wanted it. Now, hitting the green zoom automatically knows if I want it fullscreen or half screen. The Mac is conforming to the way I want to do things. Conversely, Windows never seemed to remember what size I wanted my windows so if I wanted to look at both firefox and Word at the same time, it would require me to resize them manually everytime. How about if I want the Mac style zoom in Windows? Do I have an easy option for this in Windows? No. I must either maximize or size it some arbitrary and usually useless screen size. Everyone seems to be saying that Apple is too controlling and that they are horrible for not conforming to the way that former Windows users are used to things. Well same goes for Windows, unless I am missing something they certainly don't give you the option to customize the OS to act like a Mac. And why would they? I understand the frustration. I do. If you are unhappy then stick to Windows or just download this handy application. Those are two great options. Same goes the other way, if you want Windows to act like Mac, go out of your way to download programs for customizing it or just buy the Mac. Just remember, this is not about one being more restrictive than the other, it is just about different ways of doing things. If either OS doesn't work the way you do, your only option is to find workarounds, and I have found that there are more of these and they are easier to find and install with Mac to be more like Windows than I ever found when I wanted my crappy HP to act more like Mac.
Um.....guys... just hold the shift and command (little apple button) while "maximing your window and thats all you need. :)
@Um People What applications does that work in? Just tried finder and PowerPoint, no go.
I totally agree with the people who says that mac users are snob, when they give excuses why osx lacks in a lot of options and configurations people say "Because it is simpler this way" that's not a answer this is called laziness!!! All the time I have to use addons on OSX that are made from users instead of apple, one of them is keyboard layout US international. (sometimes it's like keep using linux, but paying for that something that should be free) These are some of the best in 3 OSes that I frequently use that I most like and dislike: Win: Control Panel, variety of list kinds in explorer: Linux:Ubuntu(gnome): when you are currently in a desktop space(1,2,3...) and switch apps (alt-tab) the OS only shows you the apps running in that space not all apps like expose spaces, sometimes you do have like 10 or more apps running in different spaces OSX: installing apps is the easiest of them all, just drag it moving/copying files are the best of the 3 when you are dragging you move the selection more freely than the others app groups, you may have 20 consoles running but only one appear in app list, also you can hold option after hit tab key and select which app you want to switch with mouse some hotkeys are best than in others but some are insane like in textmate Navigation/Scroll you have to press these keys : control-option-command + arrow key... 4 combo keys?? almost need to use your feet in keyboard ???? other thing that is not too good is the access for mac menu, you have to press control-f2 while in windows/linux you just press alt+space (you have to agree that it's easier to hit that instead of ^+F2)
Awesome ! now it works the way i want it to :)
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Joel - your points are well taken and no doubt Apple has been able to remain 'hip' as a result of always following their own GUI implementations. However, I've been using Apple for many many years - and not because they're cool, but only because they sit on UNIX and that appeals to me. I've been a developer for most of my life (I'm 32) and the fact is that while the green button is for ZOOM, I fully agree with others that it WOULD be more useful for it to have multiple functionality. I can't stand the little half-zoom that Apple-based apps use. Noone is saying one is better or worse, it's just a matter of choice. For that matter, it would also be nice to be able to adjust windows from other corners, but hey, I guess Apple likes keeping to their integrity on that one too. =]
Having been a developer for 15 years, and worked on both platforms, i do not understand how having a window maximized is not a desireable behaviour for "power users".. Often I want an email client, or browser window, or IDE or any other app to be my sole focus, and i want to have as much screen real estate as possible without having to drag the little corner over to the bottom right. Double click to the title bar is an amazing way to fill up a second monitor with a window from your first monitor.. and the monitors are diff sizes, so i enjoy that it automatically fits it. Having a never ending cascade of partially visible windows gives a cluttered experience, and is just annoying sometimes. I think both platforms have their strengths, but this is a feature that has bothered me for years. (owner of 8 pc computers and 2 macs)
Having been a developer for 15 years, and worked on both platforms, i do not understand how having a window maximized is not a desireable behaviour for "power users".. Often I want an email client, or browser window, or IDE or any other app to be my sole focus, and i want to have as much screen real estate as possible without having to drag the little corner over to the bottom right. Double click to the title bar is an amazing way to fill up a second monitor with a window from your first monitor.. and the monitors are diff sizes, so i enjoy that it automatically fits it. Having a never ending cascade of partially visible windows gives a cluttered experience, and is just annoying sometimes. I think both platforms have their strengths, but this is a feature that has bothered me for years. (owner of 8 pc computers and 2 macs)
We may also just hide the dock by keystroke Cmd + Alt + D and use the green botton to maximize the window.
Why are you guys all being a hater. It is simple. To maximized the window on mac: Hold "SHIFT" while clicking the "green"/"zoom" button. Thanks and I saved ur live. I know.
"This free tool fixes an inconvenient behavior of green Zoom button in Mac OS X. It will always expand windows on a full screen instead of strange resizing" So this actually break the intended behaviour of the green zoom button. I used to think that the green button made no sense but now I understand it but I can certainly see how it's confusing. When it's working it's great but the problem is with applications that are designed to make the content fit to the window, i.e. web browsers like Safari, it does nothing then. To all you who say "why would you want to maximize a window in OS X, you don't understand how to work in OSX", I ask, can you really not see any condition where you would want to utilize the entire screen for one perticular application? What I would want is an additional button or some other way to quickly maximize a window, along with that I would want the OPTION to make double clicking in the title bar of window maximize it instead of minimizing it, simply because I'm used to that from Windows. I'm sure many switchers feel like I do. If only Apple could swallow their pride they would have a lot more switchers.
Thanks for remembering
I think the ability to override the default behaviour of "the green button" relatively easily shows that OSX is open to change and customisation. It's simply not as straightforward to customise Windows like this. I've been reading all about Objective-C and Cocoa. It's easy to adapt it to suit individual needs by giving developers a way of over-riding base classes without breaking the code. Check it out... http://macdevelopertips.com/objective-c/objective-c-categories.html
Thank you for this. I don't understand the hostility here. If you don't like the idea, just don't download it.
It would be really nice if mac made a button to maximize window. That would be nice on Macbook Pro
Just hold the 'alt' key and press the maximize button, maximizes a window fully.
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Why does everybody who own a Mac acts as if they worked for Apple??? You people realize that Steve Jobbs' earning more money doesn't mean you are gonna earn more money. What is sadder is that Mac users spend half their time defaming Windows, while everyone knows that both systems have flaws. I bought a Mac mainly for the battery. I actually know how to use a computer so I don't care much if it is in windows or mac.
The zoom pebble is an awesome idea, but it relies on developers to do the right thing. However, there are times when a maximise button is also needed. If anybody doesn't agree let me ask you this, have you ever resized a window to be larger than what the green pebble provides for either for applications that won't zoom properly or otherwise? If the answer is yes then that is an indication this feature would add value as it is something you already do. The other part of my argument is in that OS X UI contradicts itself with window resizing. If the green pebble gave me the optimal zoom then why allow me to make the page wider by resizing with bottom right? Isn't that superfluous? Also, it has already been pointed out that even apple applications like iTunes use the button for different purposes. Mac users, I am not trying to devalue the zoom button, it should be protected as it is an integral part of the UI. Green pebble functionality should remain unchanged. However, as can be seen by this thread power users do find a lot of use in having means to give them quick full screen maximise capability. I certainly look for it. I would hate to resort to bastardising my install to get this feature. Apple, I hope you are listening, we need full screen maximise capability!!! Even if it is disabled out of the box but there for power users to enable... I really hope somebody that matters is listening...
Honestly, I've always been more of a fan of just putting the monitor to sleep than screen savers. Sure they look pretty awesome, but if you're sitting at your computer, are you really doing so with the screen saver on?Good luck for the dates. It has been some times since we last heard about the next tour. I hope they can run it accordingly now.2ugOE21QlS63Bhra
Very tiny and useful app, but maximizing won`t work with Google Chrome? Anybody else haven`t this problem?
I solved this inconvenience with a great program called CINCH (US$ 7.00). It is from Irradiated Software or something like that.
Terrific. Long time looking for this. It was annoying for Macs not having that useful feature available in Windows. By the way, it looks like every Mac user works for Apple! I use both Mac and Windows and I find both are great. Please Mac users, open your mind, they are just machines... come on!
Honestly, I've always been more of a fan of just putting the monitor to sleep than screen savers. Sure they look pretty awesome, but if you're sitting at your computer, are you really doing so with the screen saver on?Good luck for the dates. It has been some times since we last heard about the next tour. I hope they can run it accordingly now.0SxoMQdSdluR04Tf
I think in such cases this app is really handy AND that in this cases too, os x's developers s*ck a bit.
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I've got a Mac G4 that I have loaded Windows on (in addition to Mac's OS). It has been buggy since day one. I wish I could just buy a new G5 with the Intel processors, but thats a pretty big chunk of change. Oh well. Fixes like these will have to suffice for now.
I've got a Mac G4 that I have loaded Windows on (in addition to Mac's OS). It has been buggy since day one. I wish I could just buy a new G5 with the Intel processors, but thats a pretty big chunk of change. Oh well. Fixes like these will have to suffice for now.Best Real Estate Agent
I own a Macbook and an iPhone and i'll never call myself a Mac user if it means being associated with the idiots posting here. Stop all this apologetics for the broken maximize button. Everyone will see: when Mac OS X Lion comes out, they're introducing an revolutionary new feature borrowed from the iPad OS -- Full Screen applications! Go ahead, google it. Exactly like Apple to shrug off an essential functionality for years, while all these trolls defend the senseless decision religiously. Face it, there is no logic to omitting a maximize function in the OS. There's nothing wrong with using Apple products but for the love of christ, stop being an uncritical sheep.
Briyan Potts (and a few others) hit the nail on the head. I'm coming out of the closet today. I'm a bitechual. Or, rather, a tritechual. You see, I love my MacBook Pro. I really like Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). I really like my iPhone. I like Windows XP. I hate Vista and haven't given 7 a good run yet. I GNU/Linux (Linux Mint in particular). They all have pros and cons. Come on Mac people, you don't have to believe it's flawless to love it. You don't have to attack Windows to keep using it. Once you've purchased it, it's yours and Steve Jobs can't and won't scold you for pointing out flaws. I'm just sayin'. :D Comin' to think of it, I like Android. Oh boy, I'm quadtechual...
Steve Jobs is just a stubborn douche bag. He wouldnt put hibernate in mac knowingly it is greener. He wouldnt make mouse two button knowingly it is more productive. He wouldnt add max button konwingly it is useful in many way.
there is no adjustment for 'resize window to abounding screen, pass4sure 4A0-104 like there is on Windows. Usually you are not abandoned in something like this and anyone writes a little appliance to accommodate in such a need. pass4sure 642-583 About the keyboard shortcuts Just attending in the cull down card to see the keyboard adjustment for an action. Almost any activity has a shortcut, pass4sure 70-236 can't say Apple has an abhorrence to them.
He wouldnt put hibernate in mac knowingly it is greener. He wouldnt make mouse two button knowingly it is more productive. He wouldnt add max button konwingly it is useful in many way.
Now, what about charms that say "imported from Italy?" Well, that's nice, but did you know that many of these places simply buy Chinese-made Italian charms through an import company in Italy.
I came from a Windows and Linux background and the green button was kinda weird for me. I searched and found out that it's not meant to maximize but to "fit contents". So I tried to adapt to the Mac way of doing things but it's just crazy. :) So I installed RightZoom and all I can say is perfect. And I like how it allows me to still keep the old zoom feature too and the hotkeys! Now, I really love the Mac! - Mike
Seems to not work with Google Chrome... :-(
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I had some difficulties but eventually I managed to install this application ... thanks for the guide!
wow,Right Zoom is what i needed then.
just install windows 7 on a mac, simple, apple are great at hardware (putting aside the lack of blurray) but with an external bluray drive, windows 7, a TWO buttoned usb mouse, a MacBook air, or whatever they're called could be the ultimate all rounder. APPLE PLEASE STOP TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING!!
changed my mind, sorry apple wannabe employees, i just realised apple do not make the best hardware not in terms of of construction, but something more basic. While i think the single aluminum piece, the magnetic charger connection, the vent under screen hinge etc is outstanding, i just remembered it seems they must have been too busy messing around with trying to do everything, they forgot the delete key? maybe it was a communication error... "did you fit the delete key in?", "yep", "hows the iphone 5 antenna coming along?" "should be better"... whoops, its called backspace not delete, backspace and delete are both pretty basic and fundamental, i dont wanna click my cursor around to delete, i want to get on with work so on that basic, im out, for hardware, i'll be sticking with Sony Vaio. Steve Jobs (or someone in this company) seems to be like the Gaddafi of the I.T. industry. well i the consumer where all cash originates will dictate, i want a delete key on my open, universal standards compliant, machine with functionality before profit (e.g. Flash is good for the industry regardless of its "threat" to the app store), So, as someone said above, its a tool not a dumb religion, thanks
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its about time this works. i've been wanting to do this full screen thing forever
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Microsoft Word for Mac totally fails with the zoom button. Right now I have it stacked in a 300x600 window without any chance of maximize even a little. The zoom button makes the word window that big, and the corner for resizing doesn't work, like if it be unclickable. A MAXIMIZE BUTTON IS NEEDED. At least something like (Command + click on zoom button) or something like that would be really great.
Hey, I just installed the app, now I have the very same option I was talking about! Command + Zoom Button = Full maximize. Great app, works great. Cheers.
WARNING!!!! Do not use this plug-in if you are running Photoshop. It creates a nasty bug that makes selecting sub tools in the tools palette extremely slow. It took me 3 months to figure this one out and countless hours of wasted time. I loved the plug-in for everything else (I switched from a PC where this was part of the OS) but had to uninstall since I use PS for about 5 hours a day.
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Those are some really great wallpapers. The thing is that fullscreen very rarely makes sense in non-power user mac apps, and the Apple HIG specify to suit apps to the 80% non-power-users. Fullscreen is great for watching a DVD or playing a game etc., but in that case a complete display capture is usually suitable. The key (that is the correct term) window has a deeper shadow (from Leopard onward) and different coloring.
The zoom button makes the word window that big, and the corner for resizing doesn't work, like if it be unclickable. -------------- dog blankets
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One small step for Finder, one huge step for Apple
Hope it can changes the way we do zooming! Keep going MacOS!
Shift + green ??
The application was really great. It will be very useful for everyone
And the irony of all this to-ing and fro-ing, and Mac OS workflow is great, is that with the release of Lion OS X comes the availability of full-screen apps. Now why would Apple want to do that?
I can't remember the last time the green button actually changed a window to a useful size. Joel, when speaking from a user perspective, as us Mac users so like to do, does it matter if the problem lies with the developer or the OS programmer? It doesn't work, for me at least, so I'm looking for a workaround. At least if the window is full-screen, it has a chance of showing me all the content I'm trying to see.
i am a new mac user and i hate it .all they've done is copied windows apps and made them look cooler. But they dont work cos its all jumbled perhaps to hide above fact. Do those mac lovers believe pages is better that word and that number sis better than access. they are horried. Pages is most frustrating. Its hard to format docs and it does'nt do proper spell/grammar check. and its so difficult to edit and save. If the apple apps worked why is apple so keen, why are they so keen to market i-work?? my photos are also in a mess now because apple force organisation of my fotos without my consent, they wont let me delete stuff. and keep backing up my files multiple times. i cannot also have similar photos in different folders.
K, hold Shift+Green "+" pebble works on Chrome for me, and as for the delete key, hold down the Fn (Function) key and it will delete to the right like you want it to. Pretty much, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+delete+to+the+right+on+mac lmgtfy to a lot of these complaints, really, people??
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Joel, get a life for fucks sake. You are a fucking idiot. I will set up my Mac with whatever apps, add ons, utilities, and third party apps that suits ME. Don't like me, FUCK OFF, problem solved.
This application sounds good to me. I just hope this one is a user friendly though I have not tried this yet. Raquel
omgsh, thank you! its absurd to HAVE to download something to get a full screen... im not a computer nerd but i can figure out everything there is to figure out on a PC and Mac is just trying to be so different that theyre making it difficult for the people who have the means to buy their products. Computer savvy or not...
Joel is a fan douche. I like my Mac alot, but these types of douches make Mac users look bad. ..and unfortunately there are sooooo many of them. The problem I have with guys like Joel is they typically know very little about their OS other than how to open Photoshop, yet whine like a little bitch about other OS's, and still refer to it as "NT". I am in complete agreement with John Young. I will put anything on my computer that I want. The guy who made this mod is awesome. Thanks man!
I knew that this is wasn't from the Mac itself but from the software.How i usually tend to forget anything that i read on the internet maybe i'll some a screen printing shirts online and put my family to wear them so i won't forget what i have to do to get rid of the green button. Thanks for your post.
Fantastic post. keep going!
They shouldn't sell a product that has defects. Doing this their credibility and even their imagine is lost. Mac was always in top but not they have to deal with angry customers and with media criticism. Maybe a good decision is to remove all the deteriorated products, to apology on TV and to reduce their products prices for a while.
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Does not work with Mac Office Word 2004 on OSX 10.6.8, 32 bit (MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo).
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