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Maximizing in Yosemite

<time datetime="2014-10-19 00:00:00 &#43;0000 UTC">19 October 2014</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><time datetime="2017-05-07 00:00:00 &#43;0000 UTC">Updated: 7 May 2017</time><span class="px-2 text-primary-500">&middot;</span><span>91 words</span>
MacOS Yosemite

Apple changed the behaviour of the small green button in the window controls from “Maximize” to “Fullscreen”.

Yosemite Window Controls
Yosemite Window Controls

I used Maximize all the time, and now found how to get the behaviour again. You need to can double click the title bar (or combined toolbar, e.g. in Safari) to get the old “Maximize” behaviour. No idea if that was like this in Mavericks and before as well already…

Update 07 May 2017:

Or you press the Alt (⌥) button and then click the little green blob, like everyone else.