Resizes the current window to fill the screen without maximizing.

Latest Version

Version

0.2

Update

April 29, 2016

Size

14.49KiB

Developer

Fill Screen Extension

Changes the window size to be a non-maximized (\"restored\") window that fills the current monitor's available workspace.

I wrote this so I could go from a maximized window to a non-maximized (but still 'full screen'-sized) window state with one click.

My motivation was that the tab-bar in Chrome is at the very top of the window, and I run Winamp in Windowshade mode along the top edge of my desktop which blocked access to the tabs - by entering a non-maximized state the tabs are pushed-down and become accessible again.

A word on permissions: this extension needs to run content-scripts to access the `window.screen` object which is not currently exposed through the Chrome Extension API. Because the `activeTab` permission does not apply to the Chrome Start Page (which is under `google.com`) it needs permission to run content-scripts on google.com.

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",\t"manifest_version": 2,\t"name": "Fill Screen",\t"version": "0.2",\t"description": "Resizes the current window to fill the screen without maximizing.",\t"icons": {\t\t"16": "Icons/Icon16.png",\t\t"32": "Icons/Icon32.png",\t\t"128": "Icons/Icon128.png"\t},\t"browser_action": {\t\t"default_icon": {\t\t\t"19": "Icons/Action-Restore-19.png",\t\t\t"38": "Icons/Action-Restore-38.png"\t\t},\t\t"default_title": "Fill Screen"\t},\t"author": "Dai Rees",\t"permissions": [\t\t"activeTab",\t\t"https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab*"\t],\t"background": {\t\t"scripts": [ "Background.js" ],\t\t"persistent": false\t}}

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