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by Patrick Lenz.
Original Post: Don't Escape Full Screen Mode in Safari
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I went back to using Safari instead of Chrome as my standard browser on the Yosemite Public Beta to enjoy the awesome Handoff features. (And it still feels awkward to talk publicly about an upcoming Apple software release.)
Yosemite window controls
Since I use most applications in fullscreen mode on my MacBook Pro, using Safari out of the box has one major drawback: It insists on leaving fullscreen mode when you hit the Escape key. Since sites like Squarespace use Escape as a shortcut to the admin login, YouTube and Vimeo use it to exit fullscreen mode of their video player, and so forth, I end up exiting Safari's fullscreen mode accidentally over and over again, which drives me bananas.
While Chrome apparently had the same default setting a while back, it's now doing the sane thing and uses just ⌘⌃F to enter and exit fullscreen mode. Safari has had its Escape trigger set since the early days of Lion and even apps like Secrets don't know anything about a secret preference either, not even in Yosemite.
Now, you could go ahead and brute-force disable the Escape key in Safari. But that'd defeat the purpose of still allowing Escape to work as a shortcut in the aforementioned places, which I'd rather avoid.
Remap Escape to ⌥Escape with a Keyboard Maestro macro
Instead, I'm using the power of Keyboard Maestro once again to remap Escape to ⌥Escape, which is wired internally in Safari to still trigger websites' escape key mappings while disabling the accidental triggering of the pesky "Exit Full Screen" functionality.
If you don't want to cobble the macro together by hand, it's available for download here.
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