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Title: Window Expander App for Chrome to view YouTube videos in near-full screen
Post by: riso on December 24, 2010, 02:14:44 PM
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These days, you no longer have to be an esoteric nerd to sport a dual-monitor setup. Heck, many of us use three monitors, and some have been known to use entire walls. Now, when you have such a setup and try to watch a YouTube video in full-screen, you quickly discover an irritating fact: While you're watching a video in full-screen on one monitor, any click on another monitor collapses the video back to its tiny windowed size.

There are ways to get around this by replacing specific Flash DLLs with tweaked versions, but really, who wants to mess with system files like this? Window Expander for Chrome is a far less invasive solution. It adds a button to Chrome's Omnibar which you can click to display a full-screen window with the video you're currently watching. Since Chrome has so little, well, chrome, it's the next best thing to full-screen. Window Expander is simple, and it works. Go give it a try!

Tags: browsers, chrome, extensions, fullscreen, google, google chrome, GoogleChrome, video, window expander, WindowExpander, youtube

source: Window Expander (http://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fkpaakpeehepibjpdmoocdaonognfiog?hl=en) for YouTube