RESIZING WINDOWS IN MAC OS X 10.7.3

Why is it when I have a small pdf window open in Acrobt, I can simply click the green dot to have it fill the ENTIRE screen.  Yet if I go to do this, say with Safari, it just expands the window top to bottom, not also left to right? I have to drag it out manually to fill the screen left to right!!  Any ideas how I can get ALL my windows to FULLY expand in one click of the green dot, like the do in Adobe Acrobat??  Thanks in advance! :)  Mark

Hi Pete.
I use multiple Thunderbolt displays along with my laptop display, and when you go to FULL SCREEN by clicking the double arrows in the upper right hand corner, in renders only one display to full screen, but all the content on your other screens disappears and gives way to the default "grey fabric" screen saver that APPLE designed.
I want to be able to instantly fill any given screen independently, with whichever window is active on that particular monitor.  I don't understand why an ADOBE product like Acrobat would do this effortlessly with a window for their applications, yet none of the APPLE programs seem to behave with the same ease when you have a window open through them!!??
Any more suggestions?
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