... spend most of my day inside the browser reading, writing, working in web apps. And for a long time I had a small, stubborn problem I couldn't solve cleanly. I wanted to hide my tabs and the address bar to focus on a single page but still keep that page in a normal window, so I could put my notes right next to it. In fullscreen, I lose access to my other windows. Multitasking becomes impossible. And Alt-Tabbing ... ... every few seconds is its own kind of distraction. If you've searched for a way to hide Chrome's tab bar and address bar without going fullscreen , you've probably found what I found: nothing clean