Fullscreen without Tabs or Toolbar Not Working

[jputting]

Hi,

I am using Vivaldi 3.2.1967.47 (Stable channel) (64-bit).

It is installed in MacOS Catalina 10.15.6

I have repeatedly tried the instructions given on the Vivaldi Help page:https://vivaldi.com/blog/fight-screen-clutter-with-vivaldi/

However NONE of the instructions given achieve what I want.

I want true Fullscreen with NO Tabs, Toolbar or Titlebar.

I have also tried all the Chrome Extensions to try and achieve what I want, however when I exit fullscreen using those Extensions there is a strange effect of the Tab Bar area which contains the actual Tabs only being half restored to normal state.

I do not know if I'm doing something wrong but the Ctrl+F11 / ⌘ F10 commands do not work for me.
The instructions on this Vivaldi webpage don't work for me either: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/full-screen-view/
"Furthermore, you can toggle the UI visibility by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F11 / ⌘ F10. It’s also possible to hide individual UI elements like the Panel or Address bar with Keyboard Shortcuts. You can set and edit shortcuts for each toolbar in Settings > Keyboard > View."

I do not understand why Vivaldi have deliberately chosen to change this function in Chrome, it is simply a matter of going to the View Menu and deselecting the UI interface items you don't wish to see in Fullscreen and once set one click gives you True Fullscreen with absolutely No Tabs,Toolbar or Titlebar.

If something is broken why try and fix it?

Anyway I would appreciate any help given to help me achieve my desired goal of being able to have True Fullscreen with NO Tabs, Toolbar and Titlebar.

[LeMaster]

If I have Vivaldi in full screen (either by pressing the green dot in the upper left of the window or using the Mac keyboard shortcut "control + command + F", or the Vivaldi keyboard shortcut of "F10") and I press the hide Vivaldi "Hide UI" (Toggle UI) keyboard command "command + F10", I get what you are looking for a "true Fullscreen with NO Tabs, Toolbar or Titlebar".

The "⌘ F10" hides all of Vivaldi's elements, but it does not make it full screen (and to my knowledge it is not supposed to).

But, it does work for me (NOTE: "Ctrl+F11" did not do anything for me).

So what happens when you press "F10" and then "⌘ F10" (Command + F10), that does not give you what you want?

[jputting]

Hi,

I tried your suggestion of entering Fullscreen via the green dot in the upper left hand corner and then the keyboard command of "command and F10" but this works unreliably and sometimes I am left the with the Title bar at the top of the screen. Then when I tried to exit Fullscreen it was very difficult to get the UI and Toolbars back to normal, most time I had to restart Vivaldi to get the UI back to it's normal appearance.

With the Chrome browser enabling True Fullscreen has always been easy and reliable and as Vivaldi is based upon Chrome it still should be easy and simple to achieve.

Chrome never ever gave me these issues with True Fullscreen and enabling True Fullscreen was never a multi-step process which was unreliable at best.

If you want True Fullscreen in Chrome it is so simple to enable by clicking on the View Menu in the Titlebar and deselecting the elements you don't wish to see in Fullscreen.

This needs only to be done once in Chrome and then every time you enter Fullscreen it is True Fullscreen unless you decide to revert back to showing the UI elements in Fullscreen.

This was a simple function which worked flawlessly in Chrome and never failed to work.

But the Vivaldi developers have been tampering around with the Fullscreen Function which used to work perfectly and now their tampering with it means I can't reliably get the True Fullscreen that I can so easily and swiftly achieve in Chrome.

This is a classic example of the old saying "If it's not broken don't try and fix it"

The developers of Vivaldi should promptly reverse the changes they have made to Fullscreen which in my opinion have been ill considered and detrimental to Vivaldi due to the unreliable and unneeded complexity they have added to function which previously worked so well and was simple and reliable to use.