can't get YouTube on full screen

[foampile]

i was wondering if others are experiencing this problem. when i hit the full screen button on YouTube, it only expands up to the Firefox menu bar but not the entire screen. could this be a YouTube or Firefox problem?

thanks

[nonamedotc]

Are you running youtube with flash plugin or with just HTML 5? I read somewhere, if you are not using flash plugin, you would have to make full screen in firefox ...

[foampile]

just HTML5

[nonamedotc]

YouTube HTML5 Video Player

This is an opt-in trial of HTML5 video on YouTube. If you are using a supported browser, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most videos. Your comments will help us improve and perfect the mixtures we're working on. So jump in, play around, and send your feedback directly to the brains behind the scenes.
Supported Browsers

We support browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and either the h.264 video codec or the WebM format (with VP8 codec). These include:

Firefox 4 (WebM, Available here)
Google Chrome (WebM)
Opera 10.6+ (WebM, Available here)
Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (h.264, Available here, WebM support avaliable here)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)

Notes

Fullscreen support is partially implemented. Pressing the fullscreen button will expand the player to fill your browser. If your browser supports a fullscreen option, you can then use that to truly fill the screen
If you want to find videos with WebM formats available, you can use the Advanced Search options to look for them (or just add &webm=1 to any search URL)

Additional Restrictions (we are working on these!)

Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)
On Firefox and Opera, only videos with WebM transcodes will play in HTML5
If you've opted in to other testtube experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player (Feather is supported, though)

From this page

[foampile]

flash works, HTML5 does not. when i expand to full screen on FB, it does cover full screen. when i go to youtube itself however, it only expands up to the menu bar. so the workaround is, if i really wanna watch something full screen like a documentary or something before going to bed, i send myself a FB message (or post it if willing to share) and expand it full screen from there. but not on YouTube itself.

nonamedotc, i did not quite get whether your post was actually a solution to the problem or just an acknowledgement of the bug.

i would like to be able to use full screen from youtube as well

[bonedome]

Hello
don't know what's going on with you guys but html5 is fullscreen for me (using firefox 10) first vid I found on youtube that is html5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiU57B1dfss if it's still no go firefox fullscreen is f11

[odysiuss]

this same is hapening with me ,
first i thougt it was a driver issue , i updated the Nvidia driver .but this did not fix the problem .
i think it is silly that someone would ask if your browser supports fullscreen mode .since when browsers do not support full screen ???
thankfully I am using Fedora , and i installed minitube , it is a nice app , and it OPENS IN FULL SCREEN .
you can download directly from wihtin minitube any movie ,create playlists , and much more,give it a try
just add rpmfusion repos and you are ready to go
yum install minitube

[solo2101]

get flash...

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co...-red-hat-rhel/

[odysiuss]

flash is already installed , and i can play flash games in firefox .except for youtube the screen is stretched horizontally and not totally expanded
i am not sure if this is the same case for others .