After one of the latest Safari update (9.0.1 I believe) I can't use fullscreen option on Youtube properly. When I open youtube page and press F the player goes fullscreen, but the video area itself doesn't (and actually became smaller), so the rest of display is black and unused. If I press "space" (stop the video) or scroll using mouse the video area stretches to the full screen, but this is very inconvenient to press "space" twice each time I full screen.
I checked that the problem is still present when I sign out from my youtube account. But if I watch a youtube-video (embedded) on the other cites there is no problems with it. And there is no such a problem with Opera.
How to fix this problem? There are a lot of materials about it in the Internet, but most of it seems to be outdated. I tried to:
1. Press "Privacy/Remove All Website Data".
2. Uncheck "Security/Allow Plugins".
3. Disable extensions.
4. Press "Develop/Empty Caches".
This doesn't help.
Safari 9.0.2. OSX 10.10.5.
Best Answer
I have never had that issue with YouTube, but similar things happen a lot with Facebook's videos and this helps.
Pinch with 2 fingers to zoom all the way out until you see this:
Once you see this, click the YouTube tab again.
Hover over the URL Bar so you can see the refresh icon like this:
Click on the refresh icon so that the page refreshes.