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Play HTML5 videos in full scale in your browser with the click of a button, go to full screen by pressing F11. By pressing the button you will open a new tab or a window for all HTML5 videos. You won't have to open a tab or window on the popular video sharing sites that support HTML5, as it scale it within the same tab. Sites currently supported for this feature: Vimeo, Youtube, DailyMotion. For all the other sites, it will open a new tab.

Do note that some videos on YouTube, Vimeo have to be played in the flash player, and you won't be able to use this extension. But most flash player have their own full screen method.


Enabling HTML5 video on Vimeo: To enable the HTML5 player, click the "Switch to HTML5 player" link below any video.

Enabling HTML5 video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Enabling HTML5 video on DailyMotion: http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/

Vimeo: gets a full-screen button on the player itself.
Youtube: Click on 'open in a new window' to the top-right of the player to open it in a new window. It also gets a full-screen button on the player.

On the options-page you can control where videos will open to, a tab or a window.

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