JethroUK© said:
Are saying it does work? Stubbo says it works (without following any
particular procedure ) - I can only have one window in full screen mode &
Robert Aldwinckle is same & suggests it's almost an known issue?
So what's the story?
Both cases are true. If you already have normal mode windows open
you can have only one of them switch into Fullscreen mode.
If you only open windows in Fullscreen mode the way Rob suggests
you can have as many of them as you want. I prefer to have my windows
mostly in normal mode, switching them into Fullscreen only as desired.
So I guess you could minimize the effect of the problem quirk by always
switching your windows into Fullscreen mode before closing them.
But that is backwards because then it is unclear what you are closing.
E.g. normally before closing a Fullscreen mode window I switch it into
normal mode so I can see exactly what I am closing; then I can decide
whether to use Ctrl-w to close a tab or Alt-F4 to close all tabs.
That practice would be essential for users who had set their preferences
not to get a warning about closing windows with multiple tabs.
Then the procedure you would have to get into the habit of doing when
closing Fullscreen tabs would be: switch the window into normal mode
(to check on how many tabs there are and whether you wanted to close
them all) then switch back into Fullscreen mode and do the Ctrl-w or Alt-F4.
Hmm... I guess you would be safe then just using Ctrl-w always and try
to break the (well-ingrained) habit of using Alt-F4 to close a window.
I might try that but as I mentioned I would really prefer having my
new windows always open in normal mode.
Note that when you clone a window e.g. with Ctrl-N it is going to be in
normal mode anyway and it *is* then subject to the one Fullscreen mode
window per set rule. Then the hunt for the Fullscreen mode window you
can change to let that one use Fullscreen mode becomes much harder.
E.g. unless you know exactly which one you cloned it from you might have
to find all your Fullscreen mode windows switch them all to normal mode
and then (remembering which normal-mode-only window you wanted to switch
into Fullscreen mode) switch back to it and then into Fullscreen mode.
It would be much easier just to be able to unconditionally switch normal mode
windows (or Maximimized mode windows) into Fullscreen mode as desired
the same way that IE has always done before IE7.
BTW I'd also like to be able to switch Fullscreen mode windows into
Maximized mode windows, which I think is another quirky incompatibility in IE7.
Robert
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) although i'm not sure what will happen