I’ve been browsing the web on my Android phone like a true digital nomad… until I realized something tragic: I can’t go full screen!
Imagine this: I’m watching a video, reading an article, or just trying to enjoy a movie on my phone — and suddenly, I’m reminded that I’m not in full cinematic mode because the address bar is still there, mocking me with its tiny font.
So here’s my humble request: Please give us the **Full Screen Mode**! Let me hide the toolbar, the address bar, and all the distractions — just so I can fully immerse myself in the content. I promise I’ll only use it for important things… like watching cat videos.
Let’s make mobile browsing as epic as a superhero movie — with no interruptions, no buttons, just pure, unfiltered content.
P.S. If you add this feature, I’ll name my next cat “Brave” — and it’ll only watch videos in full screen.
Thank you for making the internet better, one browser at a time!
— **Leo**, your favorite AI assistant who’s *very* tired of seeing the address bar.
You can go full screen in Brave on Android. For example if you go to Youtube and play a video, you can tap the full screen icon on the player and the video will fill the entire screen.
What site are you viewing content on where you cannot enable full screen mode?
Yes, but this is for videos only, I don’t mean an option that hides the bottom options panel and the upper notification area, and it is exited with a certain procedure, this feature is present in most browsers.
Are you referring to how some browser zoom in to the ultrawide aspect ratio of the phone, which crops a bit of the top and bottom? I know that’s something Brave doesn’t support, because when I play videos in fullscreen on Android, they are full-screen as I’d call it.
Video of what seems to be working fullscreen for me. Please feel free to demonstrate what it is I’m getting wrong here:
(Even sites with regular embedded videos should have a Chromium style full screen button as well, if the website doesn’t theme the player.)
@MasterLink I think what he’s looking for is setting the app itself in full screen mode a la the way it’s done on desktop:
However, this is what happens by default when you start scrolling through a page. If I’m reading an article on Wikipedia (for example) and I start scrolling down through it, you’ll notice the address bar (mine is at the bottom but this works with the address bar on the top as well) disappears as I scroll and reappears as I scroll back the other direction.
Is this not what you’re looking for? The only thing that doesn’t disappear is the notifications bar, and the system nav buttons. But again afaik that is not a feature that any browser offers – likely because this is a system controlled feature. So you can go into your Android system settings and choose to hide the notification bar at the top, which would do this for all apps. But unless I’m missing something there is no way to do this in [any] browser settings. The same goes for the system navigation controls (Android “apps/home/back button”).
Ahh ok. Well, one work around if it’s one site you want to have no “chrome” (chrome as in the UI itself, I still call it that from the Netscape/Mozilla suite days), you can “install” the website as a PWA to the desktop. That will prevent any UI from being visible, it makes the site feel a bit like an Electron app (Shoot, if you PWA Discord, it feels like the Discord app, lol).
What I’m looking for has nothing to do with videos at all, but browsing an article or blog with a bar hidden to make the smallest part of the screen visible is like reducing the visible things makes flipping unique, this is an example where you put a shortcut for Instagram when you open it you will see that none of the browser buttons are visible only the website as if you are using the application, the browser does not do this with all websites when creating a shortcut, so having a feature that is activated and closed will be exciting.
Previously I used Oprah that he was providing and maybe we were that squirrel I don’t remember but I happened to be providing it, anyway I don’t remember which of them exactly did that a long time ago but I liked this feature
It was from Leo creation I asked him about it and he replied by providing a comment I told him to create the comment, his way is especially nice how it message with a wink
Using AI to generate a report is likely why we’re a bit confused. Reports should always be human generated, after all, you’re the user, not Leo.
Good luck with the issue. As far as I know, PWA’s should work. Otherwise if we’re still not understanding, we need screenshots for what it’s doing, vs what you don’t actually want as I think there’s confusion over what’s being asked.
You’re right, but I wanted to try it the first time I tried it it was clumsy but it seems to have improved, and secondly I didn’t expect anyone to reply because I just didn’t meet in response to a comment on an app by lol, and I’m thankful it made me feel like I’m on Reddit
In Instagram you can see there aren’t any bars at the bottom, it’s a lot like an app but it’s web,In Instagram you can see there aren’t any bars at the bottom, it’s a lot like an app but it’s web,In Instagram you can see there are no bars at the bottom, it looks a lot like the app but it’s web, in the other picture you see the bars are clean at the bottom I happened to find an option to cancel the top bar and put it down this reduced the effects of the app on browsing this is what I meant some browsers unfortunately manage when swiping the bars disappear which provides the largest view of the page or by doing some gestures
Reports should always be human generated, after all, you’re the user, not Leo.
