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Convert Safari popups to normal windows. Web Browsers
I often find myself in pop-ups that have no address bars. Safari has an awkward shortcut to invoke the address bar (command+shift+\), but I discovered that the Google shortcut on the edit menu accomplishes the same thing, and is a more natural Option+Command+F. To test this, go to http://www.mac.com and click on the "Help" link just below the Quicktime tab. This results in a classic no-address-bar popup window that you can use to test the shortcut.
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Convert Safari popups to normal windows.
Authored by: greenplasticcup on May 24, '04 12:01:37PM

Try Command L

That brings you to the location field with the address highlighted. I looked in the menus and apparently that's the key command for Open Location...



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Convert Safari popups to normal windows.
Authored by: osxpounder on May 24, '04 02:21:01PM

That's right, CMD+L will bring down the Address field [temporarily] and put the Mac's focus on it, so you can immediately type a URL.

Just do CMD+L and start typing.

The Address field will stay in view you do CMD+SHIFT+\ [that's the backwards slash, in case it didn't come through -- it shows up when I preview my comment, though].

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Not quite 'normal'
Authored by: mustang_dvs on May 24, '04 03:59:12PM

Unfortunately, neither [CMD]-L, [CMD]-T or [CMD+OPT]-F will restore a pop-up window's ability to be re-sized. (This is especially frustrating in JavaScripted image enlargements that do not fully accommodate the image width - a common problem with Safari.)

(Yes, [CMD]-T will also bring up the header bars, assuming you have tabs enabled.)



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Not quite 'normal'
Authored by: kman on May 25, '04 12:10:36AM

Once you get the address, you can paste it into a normal window. Then resizing will be enabled.



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right (control) click
Authored by: NeutronMonk on May 25, '04 06:09:33AM

You can right(control) click on an image pop-up and choose "open image in new window". This works for all manner of pop-ups, for that matter, except for frames, where you'll only get the particular frame that your mouse is over in a new window.



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Not quite 'normal'
Authored by: mcroft on May 25, '04 07:51:46AM
I wish (and have submitted as a suggestion to Apple) that Safari gave me the option to ignore the requests of page designers to do stupid things...

Attention Web Page Designers:I do not care if you don't want your popup window to have scrollbars, be resizable, use the toolbar, the location, the menubar, or the status area, etc. It's not your damn screen. The height and width are OK, but the rest of it is none of your business.

Attention Browser Developers: Please provide the ability to override stupid window decisions by Web Page Designers, both on an instance by instance basis and as a preference. This will be a competitive advantage for your product over inferior browsers which provide choices to developers without providing adequate overrides for users.

Sadly, I've seen no action on this yet, but I am optimistic...

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it is obnoxious
Authored by: abriening on May 25, '04 12:42:18PM

I admit that I have done it in the past: no resize, no scroll, no address bar. I think it is a product of the almost total control in print design. But too many sites annoyed me when their non-resizable windows were the wrong size for their flash content or images. So now I tend to believe the need to control the users enviroment is a design flaw. If you think you need to display in a little pop-up box, you're not trying hard enough.



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it is obnoxious
Authored by: osxpounder on May 26, '04 06:04:45PM

I'm guilty, too, but I agree with all of these points and I promise I'm changing my ways. I'll always allow scrollbars & resizing, from now on, but I might hold back on the toolbars and address bars. There are some reasons I can imagine for doing so:

- for many popups, the address is of no use, since it can't be reused outside of the page that called the popup [as with some javascript calls].
- I'd decide depending on the audience; for technogeeks like us, I know you all know how to make a new window, & how to get a URL into a new and different window.

One thing I never, ever do is specify font sizes in pixels or points. I always want to ensure that browsers can resize the text. It's up to the user to figure out how to do that in her own browser, though.

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Not quite 'normal'
Authored by: godlesspinkofag on Oct 17, '04 09:10:57PM

The unresizeable window is hell. My first listed bookmark, i.e. "command-1" is

javascript:self.moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight);

Alas, I, too enjoy the presence of the Address Bar and Status bar, so I have to use seven (!) keys to ameliorate the pop-up problem: "command-1" "command-/" "command-shift-|"



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All window features with one command key
Authored by: sergeidoc on Oct 18, '04 04:45:32PM
Would be even better if you open a new window with all the window features with only one command key. Try
javascript:window.open(""+self.location,"new","toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,resizable=yes,favorites=yes,width=800,height=600");
Just chage the window sizes values as desired.
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