

Navigate to the video that you want to watch. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to do it: 1. The answer is yes! Microsoft Edge is a great way to watch videos on your Xbox One. Now type fullscreen in the “ Search flags” box.If you’re an Xbox One owner, you might be wondering if you can use Microsoft Edge to watch videos on your console. It’ll open the advanced configuration or experiments page.Ģ. Open Microsoft Edge web browser and type edge://flags/ in addressbar and press Enter.

The same preference/flag can be used to get back the classic Full Screen mode UI in newer Microsoft Edge versions.įollowing steps will help you in enabling previous Full Screen mode UI in newer versions of Microsoft Edge browser:ġ. Enable Hidden Secret Full Screen Drop Down UI in Microsoft Edge If you can remember, we shared information about this hidden secret trick in following tutorial: If you also want to bring back old classic Full Screen mode UI in Microsoft Edge browser, this tutorial will help you.įortunately there is a secret preference/flag which can be modified to disable new Full Screen mode UI and restore classic Full Screen mode UI in Microsoft Edge. Many Microsoft Edge users may like the previous Full Screen mode UI as it was minimal and the auto-hidden toolbar and tab bar were not covering the web page top area when you hovered mouse cursor on top of the page. When you moved your mouse cursor on top area, only a “ Close” (X) button used to show on screen to exit from Full Screen mode.įollowing screenshot shows classic Full Screen mode’s minimal UI in Microsoft Edge browser: In older versions of Microsoft Edge, the Full Screen mode UI was different. Now you can click on “Exit Full Screen” button given at the top-right corner of the titlebar.įollowing screenshot shows the new Full Screen mode drop-down UI in Microsoft Edge browser: To exit from Full Screen mode, you can press F11 key again or move your mouse cursor on top of the screen and Microsoft Edge shows the browser frame (title bar, tab bar, toolbar, etc) temporarily as a drop-down. So you get the web page on full screen without any clutter. Once you enter the Full Screen mode, the browser automatically hides the browser frame (title bar, tab bar, toolbar, etc) along with Windows Taskbar. When you open a web page in Microsoft Edge, you can press F11 key on your keyboard to enter into Full Screen mode. The newer version of Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser comes with improved Full Screen mode UI (known as Shy UI).
