1128632 - playback controls for flash video on windows 8.1 high res screens are really super tiny. This is from a fresh install of both firefox and flash on a new laptop.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[cathalsmyth84]

Attachment: firefoxbug.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150122214805

Steps to reproduce:

have a high res screen: 3200x1800 and windows 8.1 installed.
Clean install of firefox and flash.
Go to a website with flash only playback (e.g not youtube).




Actual results:

Note that the playback controls are tiny. (playtime is not visible).


Expected results:

playback toolbar should be much bigger. Like 5x bigger.
It should scale with screen resolution as HTML5 appears to do. 
Note that this does not occur in chrome.

Comment 1

[Xavier Delgado]

Is it still reproducible with FF36?

Comment 2

[Xavier Delgado]

I've installed from scratch Fx 36.0.1  and latest Flash 17.0.0.134 - I can play https://games.yahoo.com/game/bad-eggs-online-2.html without any problem on Fx 36.0.1 and latest Nightly 39.0a1. Could you please provide an URL where I can reproduce this issue?

Comment 3

[Xavier Delgado]

Note: It was Windows 8.1 and adalucinet helped me for Nightly part, and for so much other things.

Comment 4

[Cris S]

I have this same issue with a new laptop and Windows 8.1. Definitely appears Flash related. When I right click on a flash object to access the menu it appears the resolution is reduced. I've also noticed some small issues with Shockwave, but not sure if the issues are related.

Comment 5

[Xavier Delgado]

I reproduced it. Right-click on https://games.yahoo.com/game/bad-eggs-online-2.html created a weird popup impossible to close. Common factors are Flash, right-click and Windows 8.1.
I use a PC. So, it does not happens only on laptops.

Nightly 39.0a1 (2015-03-30)
Windows 8.1
Flash Version 17.0.0.134
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

Comment 6

[Xavier Delgado]

Bug not reproduced on Ubuntu 14.04, neither on Windows 8.1 using Internet Explorer 11 or Chrome.

Comment 7

[Xavier Delgado]

Note: It's tiny on any browser. But when you go to https://games.yahoo.com/game/bad-eggs-online-2.html, and right-click "parameters", you cannot close this popup on Nightly 39.0a1 (2015-03-30)

Comment 8

[Xavier Delgado]

Regression bug. Doesn't appear on Aurora 38 01_2015

Comment 9

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

Hello all, 

I know this bug is a bit old but we are cleaning up all of the untriaged bugs.

Is this still an issue on FF 42.0 or the newest nightly build 45.0a1?

Thanks,

Justin

Comment 10

[Cris S]

Yes, I still have this issue with the newest version of FF. Playback controls are still very small.

Comment 11

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

No problem Cris, I will go ahead and send this up to a developer.

Comment 12

[Cris S]

I should also say, this same issue now persists on Windows 10 as well. Small playback controls in most videos, and some other flash menus, etc.

Comment 13

[Cris S]

Bug 1116389 is related as well. Here are a couple screenshots. The issue in Firefox, and normal sizes in Chrome. 

http://imgur.com/a/2ZmA3

Comment 15

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Resolving old bugs which are likely not relevant any more, since NPAPI plugins are deprecated.