Easy way to enlarge online videos

I find it annoying that when watching videos online most sites only have the choice of original video size and full screen. Some sites don’t even offer full screen. And what’s annoying about full screen mode is that if you have dual monitors, you can’t navigate to the secondary monitor with the video in full screen mode. Here’s a tip to increase the video size.

If you’re using a browser with “page zoom” most browsers nowadays have it (Opera, Firefox, Safari/Chrome, IE7). Just zoom in on the page by using the plus/minus keys or by holding down Control (or Command) and using the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in or out. This will increase the size of the video. It’s not quite as good as full screen; most videos don’t look good at full screen anyway. But it does make the video bigger and gives the ability to use your second monitor. I use “page zoom” on almost every video I watch online now.

Try it with this video below. Use the +/- keys on the keyboard or use Control and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.