How to watch Youtube fullscreen on one monitor of a dual-monitor display?

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Solution 1

Finally I stumbled upon a very easy solution:

Go to a video on YouTube, in this example I am going to use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM

Modify the link slightly (this works with ANY video on YouTube)

From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM
To: http://www.youtube.com/v/6v2L2UGZJAM

Enjoy your video!

You can also press F11 if you want to toggle between fullscreen mode (in your browser, not the video itself) which will increase the size of the image slightly.

Solution 2

This is the default behavior of Flash in a browser, and you need to tweak Flash itself to work around the issue. I've had luck with FlashHacker in the past, and the dev now has a Chrome-specific version:

http://jmaxxz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94:drizzlychrome&catid=16:downloads&Itemid=32

Solution 3

I use VLC for that. It can even load playlists (might need some extra scripts for that to work). Also it skips advertisments.

Just press Ctrl+N and enter youtube url.

also: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/7284/youtube-keep-fullscreen-while-switching-to-other-app

Solution 4

The workaround I use is to zoom in on the page (command+ on a Mac).

Certainly not perfect but is doing a great job, allowing me to watch the Olympics on one monitor while working on another.

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Computist

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Computist almost 2 years

How to watch Youtube fullscreen on one monitor of a dual-monitor display, in Linux?

If I do it in Google Chrome, as soon as I do anything at the other monitor, Chrome jumps back to normal window.

Edit: added that OS is Linux.
Computist over 12 years

It doesn't seem to work for Linux?
Garrett over 12 years

Nope it's designed for Windows only. I believe there are patches out there for Linux as well but I don't recall any off the top of my head.
Octopus about 11 years

This is a perfectly good solution for windows as well.
Radu Maris almost 10 years

Does not work for all videos, some of them return an error "This video contains content from ... . It is restricted from playback on certain sites. Watch on YouTube".
malisokan over 9 years

Wow! Super cool solution for youtube + firefox 33.0 + ubuntu 14.04 here. No need for an add-on or strange hack.
JPhi1618 almost 4 years

This appears to not work at all anymore. Gives me a 404 page.