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Firefox wont go fullscreen

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I recently reinstalled Firefox. Ever since whenever I go fullscreen the toolbars never disappear, therefore it is not really fullscreen. I have the "hide toolbars" option selected so I don't understand what's happening. Very frustrating. Please help.

mac OSX 10.9 Firefox 42.0

I recently reinstalled Firefox. Ever since whenever I go fullscreen the toolbars never disappear, therefore it is not really fullscreen. I have the "hide toolbars" option selected so I don't understand what's happening. Very frustrating. Please help. mac OSX 10.9 Firefox 42.0

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cor-el
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On Mac,Full Screen mode is different than on the other platforms.

You can look at this extension.

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Ok Cor-el, thank you for the response and linking me to that add on which I will surely check out.

What I don't understand is why this only started happening after I reinstalled Firefox. I was able to go fullscreen with no toolbar before, so in some sense your response seems inadequate because how could it be a Mac platform problem when the platform handled such tasks previously?

Also, how can Chrome go fullscreen with no toolbar but Firefox can't?