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Right Zoom utility is created for people who don't like a default behaviour of green Zoom button in Mac OS X programs. This small program changes its behaviour, so a green button will always maximize your windows to all available screen space instead of inconvenient resizing. You will also be able to maximize the active window with Command + Option + E keys (can be customised).
The program changes a behaviour of most annoying examples of inconvenient zoom button behaviour (Finder, Safari, MS Office, Pages etc). You can easily extend this list with your own
The program changes a behaviour of most annoying examples of inconvenient zoom button behaviour (Finder, Safari, MS Office, Pages etc). You can easily extend this list with your own
What's New
Version 1.72:
- Now you can use any key from Ctrl, Alt (Option), Cmd or Shift to hold when you want to maximise a window
- Easier access to application settings
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Right Zoom utility is created for people who don't like a default behaviour of green Zoom button in Mac OS X programs. This small program changes its behaviour, so a green button will always maximize your windows to all available screen space instead of inconvenient resizing. You will also be able to maximize the active window with Command + Option + E keys (can be customised).
The program changes a behaviour of most annoying examples of inconvenient zoom button behaviour (Finder, Safari, MS Office, Pages etc). You can easily extend this list with your own applications.
You can customise it to expand the windows with Option key pressed only, or use your own hotkey to expand windows to a full size.
More options are available to customise. Hold Cmd key on program startup to configure its options.
The program changes a behaviour of most annoying examples of inconvenient zoom button behaviour (Finder, Safari, MS Office, Pages etc). You can easily extend this list with your own applications.
You can customise it to expand the windows with Option key pressed only, or use your own hotkey to expand windows to a full size.
More options are available to customise. Hold Cmd key on program startup to configure its options.
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lugesm reviewed on 23 Jul 2011
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Kzx72 reviewed on 11 Jun 2011
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cstephen87 reviewed on 14 May 2010
In any case, this is long needed... But what NEEDS to happen is: Apple simply makes that stupid green button... Work!
On the other hand, if you're willing to spend a little money, you might want to check out this combo to get a "Windows 7 effect":
Cinch + SizeUp
Good luck!
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And for those who don't read docs... After the first time you run it, the only way to get back to the pref screen (or to disable the program, for that matter) is to launch the app while holding the Command key.
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Claudio.wilmanns reviewed on 09 Feb 2010
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Robert reviewed on 30 Nov 2009
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Might affect other apps, I only noticed in Ps CS4.
I sent this info to the developer as well.
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Also, since the options state that it should only be active on specific applications, this is a bug.
I just disabled the hotkey altogether, but like I said wanted to give a heads up to other Photoshop users to avoid spending two hours troubleshooting their setup when a key combo stops working (like I did) :)
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The key combo should have a note that it will take effect in all applications, regardless of the settings on the Applications tab.
Personally, if I want the RZ app to only work within certain apps, not sure why I would want the key combo to work on *all* apps.
My only problem seems to be that even though it maximises on the right hand side, it always leaves about 2mm on the left hand side, even when I use it on a screen that has already been manually maximised. As it happens, this has been an issue from day dot with Safari, that whenever I open it, no matter that I have dragged it to maximise the screen in my last session, it always opens a little to the right. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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This is on 10.5.6 Intel, Safari 3
This behavior also seemed to have started affecting the finder, but that was solved by a reinstall of quicktime. The safari problem was not.
So I'm stopping using RightZoom for now.
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Really there it seems to be some freezes when Quick Time movie is played inside Safari.
After investigation I have found it's Apple's bug, and it seems there's no workaround at this moment. I will send a bug report to Apple.
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carmie rated on 24 Aug 2011
Yabee rated on 25 Mar 2011