How to get applications to fill the screen

Hey,
I have been meaning to ask this for some time but how does one get say the safari window to fit the screen without going into the display preferences and changing the display ratio. If I use a pc (heaven forbid) I can just click the full screen Icon and hey presto all the screen is used. But my beloved Mac does not. What am I to do?........ Woe is me

Mac OS X does not have a +full screen+ mode like Windows, because it would be a waste of screen real estate to simply expand a window to fill the entire screen. What it does have is a one click expand to largest possible optimum windows size command. Click the GREEN orb at the upper left corner of the window. The window will expand (or in some cases contract) to a size that displays everything on the window without being any taller or wider than necessary. If the window content happens to exceed the width or height of the screen resolution, then it will expand to the largest possible size for the screen. The menu bar will remain and the Dock (if visible) will not be covered up by the expanded window.
There are a few apps that act differently. For example, iTunes switches between the standard iTunes interface window and the little Mini-Player when you click the on the green orb.

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