It is something like where ABC is the YouTube video ID.įor instance, if the YouTube video is located at the full screen player will be available at 2a. Get the full screen mode address of the YouTube video clip. Here are the steps involved for either of the methods discussed above.ġ. YouTube Player inside the Firefox SidebarĬase 2. You can either watch the YouTube video from the Firefox sidebar or, if you are working with other application or don’t use Firefox, create a standalone YouTube player window and move it anywhere on the desktop in Always on Top mode. You need to browse web pages, check emails in Outlook and maybe complete that presentation while the video plays on your screen.įortunately, this is possible with a simple hack - just decide where that video should be placed. This is a programmer's decision to miscommunicate the fact that their app switches to full screen when you expect it to maximize instead.You plan to watch a lengthy video clip on YouTube but the problem is that you have lot of other stuff to do and therefore can’t focus all the attention on just one video.
So in short: you're barking up the wrong tree, because this is not a Windows issue. Even Microsoft's own apps that allow both Full Screen and Maximize (IE and Edge) cover the taskbar completely when F11 is used to go Full Screen.
That's why the way to make the task bar appear in full screen apps is by pressing the Windows key (because that key pressed by itself is usually not mapped to in-app or in-game actions). Windows that can be set to Full Screen are meant to be immersive - and if they were to allow the task bar to popup even when they were designed to fully cover it, it would break that immersion because an innocent mouse hover would break out of the app's UI and make Windows' UI appear. If you maximize an app and it goes to full screen, the programmer of that app is breaking the UX rules - because he failed to take into account the difference between the two display states - an app should offer a choice between going full screen and maximizing, or make it clear that maximizing will be interpreted as going Full Screen. This is often combined with the "Always on top" option so that the bottom of the fullscreened window doesn't get hidden (and thus unreachable) behind the task bar. "Full screen" means: take up the entirety of the screen, and never mind the taskbar area. "Maximized" means: take up the allowed available space on the display, meaning: "stay the heck away from where the taskbar is, hidden or shown" - this ensures the taskbar is a visible element on your screen, which can be activated by hovering over or near it. There's maximized, there's full-screen, and the "always on top" option - the last one being a design choice which can be applied to any type of window (normal, maximized or full screen). I am reaching out to the developers if you can see this post.
It's sad to note that devs put a lot of effort on the aesthetics side of the OS while they ignore the niche issues brought about by software fragmentation that actually frustrates users the most.
So I tried it on Windows 11 to see if it was finally fixed, and unfortunately it wasn't. Every response in the Microsoft forums say that Auto-hide taskbar should just be rather "turned off" (what a cheeky response tbh).
I believe that this occurs because these two programs have some sort of a custom window style, or maybe it just forces itself to run on top of everything (including the 1px area that activates the taskbar when you hover on it). I have replicated this issue with Wondershare Filmora and FL Studio (both maximized).
I had this ongoing irritating issue with Windows 10 (I believe it already existed as early as Windows XP and devs didn't give a s***) that when I enable "Auto-hide Taskbar", where otherwise I expect it to appear every single time I hover my cursor to the bottom edge of the screen, it does not work with some third-party programs when maximized, although it's not the case when they are "windowed" (i.e. I have tried using Windows 11 in a VM to test if its features are worth it.