How to open maximized window with Javascript?

by 
var params = [
    'height="+screen.height,
    "width="+screen.width,
    "fullscreen=yes' // only works in IE, but here for completeness
].join(',');
     // and any other options from
     // https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.open

var popup = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'popup_window', params); 
popup.moveTo(0,0);

Please refrain from opening the popup unless the user really wants it, otherwise they will curse you and blacklist your site. 😉

edit: Oops, as Joren Van Severen points out in a comment, this may not take into account taskbars and window decorations (in a possibly browser-dependent way). Be aware. It seems that ignoring height and width (only param is fullscreen=yes) seems to work on Chrome and perhaps Firefox too; the original ‘fullscreen’ functionality has been disabled in Firefox for being obnoxious, but has been replaced with maximization. This directly contradicts information on the same page of https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.open which says that window-maximizing is impossible. This ‘feature’ may or may not be supported depending on the browser.

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