attilathedud / youtube-windowed-full-screen

A Chrome extension that forces Youtube videos to fill the entire browser window.

Youtube-Windowed-Full-Screen

A Chrome extension that forces Youtube videos to fill the entire browser window when in theater mode.

This was written not as a stable product but instead to demonstrate how easy it is to do.

Technique

Youtube changes its layout constantly. For when this inevitably breaks, here is the technique:

1. Set the search bar's display to none.
2. The page's container has a margin for the search bar. Set that margin to 0.
3. Set the theater's container max-height to 100vh.
4. Set the left on the video to 0. Set the width to 100% and the height to 100vh.

youtube-windowed-full-screen's Issues

parts of the youtube video covered while fullscreened

some videos with weird aspect ratios such as streams from tablets etc would be covered while fullscreen
is it viable to add "fit to height and not width" in the extension options?