Hide The Cursor for Zoomed Videos in OSX
One of the nice features about my mac is that you can hold control and use the scroll feature to zoom into the screen. This is handy for delicate computer graphics and reading fine print, but what I use it for the most is zooming in on web-videos that won’t go full-screen. Sure, you could click the video, open the YouTube page, and *then* full-screen, but that’s a lot of work!
The problem is that when you zoom on the screen, the image of your mouse zooms as well. This means that right smack in the middle of your freshly-zoomed video is a giant arrow! How do you get rid of the cursor? You can hide the cursor really simply, here’s how:
- press Command+L (AKA Apple+L)
- press the down arrow
This gives focus to the address bar, then pressing down hides the arrow cursor for a bar in the text box. Voila, enjoy your movie sans the arrow! Thanks to these guys where I found the answer.
(NOTE: Apple+L may only work in Firefox and Safari.)
Mac User? Try it out on this video!
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