Make the Green Maximize Button Actually Maximize

I just switched from PC to Mac, but the green Maximize button at the top of each window isn’t maximizing my windows.

We’ve never gotten much satisfaction from the unpredictable behavior of that green button, known as the Zoom button. Instead of truly maximizing your windows, the Zoom button is supposed to toggle your window between two sizes: the current size and a size that shows you as much content as possible. But anybody who’s ever used that button knows that it almost never works as advertised, and it acts completely differently in different apps.

Right Zoom fixes the behavior of the green Zoom button so that it always maximizes your windows to the full size of your screen.

We wish Apple would just concede that Windows handles this better than Mac OS X, and finally copy Microsoft for a change.

Until that day arrives, thank goodness that the folks at Blazing Tools share our frustration. Their utility Right Zoom (free, www.blazingtools.com/downloads.html) turns your green button into a bonafide Maximize button once and for all. Right Zoom lets you create a keyboard shortcut to instantly maximize a window as well.