diff --git a/static/js/feature_flags.js b/static/js/feature_flags.js
index 9672aa0bea..be945d6346 100644
--- a/static/js/feature_flags.js
+++ b/static/js/feature_flags.js
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ exports.clicking_notification_causes_narrow = page_params.staging || is_customer
     _.contains(['customer25.invalid'], page_params.domain);
 
 exports.experimental_background = page_params.staging || _.contains(['mit.edu'], page_params.domain);
+exports.full_width = page_params.staging;
 
 exports.show_digest_email_setting = page_params.staging;
 
diff --git a/static/js/ui.js b/static/js/ui.js
index 1847058712..da9c2211cf 100644
--- a/static/js/ui.js
+++ b/static/js/ui.js
@@ -851,6 +851,17 @@ exports.switchBackground = function (homecolor, narrowcolor) {
     return ("Background has been changed");
 };
 
+/* This method allows an advanced user to use the console
+ * to switch the application to span full width of the browser.
+ */
+exports.switchToFullWidth = function () {
+    $("#full-width-style").remove();
+    $('head').append('<style id="full-width-style" type="text/css">' +
+                         '#home .alert-bar, .recipient-bar-content, #compose-container, .app-main, .header-main { max-width: none; }' +
+                     '</style>');
+    return ("Switched to full width");
+};
+
 /* END OF EXPERIMENTS */
 
 $(function () {
@@ -1624,6 +1635,10 @@ $(function () {
         exports.switchBackground();
     }
 
+    if (feature_flags.full_width) {
+        exports.switchToFullWidth();
+    }
+
     // initialize other stuff
     composebox_typeahead.initialize();
     search.initialize();