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    • masoumi
      masoumi @leocg last edited by

      @leocg Same problem here. Appearantly , it's a known problem with alot of people. I seriously do not understand why Opera does not have a "exit fullscreen" button when hovering to the top, just like Chrome. Why make life harder when it can be easy?

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      • alobpreis
        alobpreis @davidjohn last edited by

        @davidjohn said in Stuck in full screen:

        faced the same issue while reading the novel on a random site readlightnovel.info

        That site looks for sale now, it has ads as "related searches" only.

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        • QuickVowel
          QuickVowel @edward5 last edited by

          @edward5 Thank you sooooo much!!! ur a lifesaver

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          • oddssatisfy
            oddssatisfy last edited by

            I am also facing the same issue.

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            • downscale
              downscale last edited by

              Re: Stuck in full screen

              I was enjoying Opera GX as a browser, till I "fullscreened" a certain Gx.gaming site game. Now it's stuck in full screen. Can't F11/F12 to reduce the size back to normal, can't close the software with alt-F4, And when I finally gave up and hit Cntrl+Shift+Esc, and ended task, i noticed that there were (23) Opera GX instances running, while I was just playing a game. What the hell? So ...yeah I dunno about Opera GX, seems a little Kooky to say the least.

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by This post is deleted!
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                • gxsbgcrwd
                  gxsbgcrwd @downscale last edited by

                  @downscale While stuck in full screen is a bug, it's quite normal for browsers to use a lot of processes

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                  • Argosmusic
                    Argosmusic @friendshipseeker last edited by

                    @friendshipseeker Oh my god thank you so much. Ive been trying to get rid of the full screen for so long and i almost gave up and switched completely to a new search engine, you're a life saver thank you.

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                    • ChickenBirb
                      ChickenBirb @friendshipseeker last edited by

                      @friendshipseeker Im in the gx corner and with this onn. keyboard, is impossible.

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                      • ChickenBirb
                        ChickenBirb @friendshipseeker last edited by

                        @friendshipseeker in my gx browser, I can't do anything because i'm in the GX Corner. have anything?

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                        • yowhatsapp
                          yowhatsapp last edited by

                          Thank you for providing the solution! But I have forced my computer to reboot after shutting it down. I will try it next time if I will come across it again, thanks again!

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                          • notjes
                            notjes last edited by

                            Once you are stuck in full screen and Esc and F11 do not work, you can press SHIFT + F10 and select exit full screen.

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                            • notcricket
                              notcricket last edited by

                              if your on mac then you can force quit opera then it should go back to normal

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                              • rhythm-speedy236
                                rhythm-speedy236 last edited by

                                Open a new tab, right click, go to settings, go to shortcuts, change the fullscreen shortcut to something else, and use that.

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                                • shreyjain360
                                  shreyjain360 last edited by

                                  Command + Shift + F worked for me.

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                                  • cooperdozier
                                    cooperdozier last edited by

                                    Re: Stuck in full screen

                                    Got stuck in full screen on a windows laptop, same problem others had been describing and offered solutions failed or were unavailable to me. Eventually I figured it out. On this (Lenovo X1) laptop the F keys all have little icons for other stuff they do on them which does not actually trigger the F/Fn key functions. So what you do to trigger the F11 exit full screen function is to hold the 'Fn' key and press F11. Worked first time. Just tested to enter and exit full screen again, very easy. So it was an annoying problem and it should be in the context menu. Theres problem some way I don't know to make the menus appear. But once found, it was an easy way out. Not sure how it would work on my Mac Mini with a PC keyboard and I don't have an Apple laptop to check. But Fn+F11 does the trick no problem. Hope you found this answer first instead of all the others that don't seem to do it!

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                                    • sgunhouse
                                      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @cooperdozier last edited by

                                      @cooperdozier That is just pressing F11, technically. On most laptops and many multimedia keyboards, the mulrimedia functions are primary and the actual F-keys require you press and hold an Fn key to access the F-key functions. So Fn+F5 is F5 (Reload), Fn+F1 is Help, and yes Fn+F11 is Toggle Fullscreen.

                                      Or - at least on my keyboard, you can press Shift+Fn to engage Fn Lock, which makes the F-keys primary and makes you use Fn to access the multimedia keys.

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                                        • MK123579
                                          MK123579 last edited by

                                          It took me forever to find out, but you can try Fn+F11 on Opera GX Windows

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