How To: Manage Websites Allowed to Use Microsoft Edge in Full Screen

Microsoft Edge is a good web browser. The speed is there. Legacy web site compatibility is about 80% of what it should be right now. But, much like Windows 10, Edge was a work in progress. Microsoft has promised features that admittedly won't show up until the next major Windows 10 update, rumored to release in September.

Edge has some important, user-accessible, browser management pieces missing, which I'm hoping will show up in the next update. One of the things that bothered me for days was having the ability to allow pop-ups on specific web sites. Blocking pop-ups is a great feature, but in Edge, it's essentially all or nothing unless you're quick enough to click the "allow pop-ups for this web site" message that displays at the bottom of the browser. Unfortunately, I was never quick enough. Thankfully, Richard located the Windows registry key where Edge stores this information and wrote up the procedure in How to manage sites allowed to serve pop-ups in Microsoft Edge.

That specific registry key has a wealth of other information for Microsoft Edge. One of those is setting Edge to allow specific websites to run full screen. This is a great setting specifically for websites that offer video streaming like YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Crackle, and Amazon.

To add a site, do this…