Closed Bug 1130111 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

youtube videos all run at startup

Categories

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video
Version:
35 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: grgoffe, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150122214805

Steps to reproduce:

I REALLY use tabs a lot and keep quite a few of my favorite tunes from YouTube in tabs. Firefox used to NOT start whatever is in a tab until I click on the tab. I upgraded to Fedora 21 a few days and copied ALL my Firefox files to this system including the directory where Firefox is installed; this is not the distribution location. I also copied my .mozilla directory.


Actual results:

When I start Firefox ALL the YouTube videos start automatically. I don't see any settings that relate to this "feature".
That is probably the difference between flash video and  html5 video
Matthias,

Thanks for responding to my bug report.

The FF version is the same and I suspect that youtube.com hasn't changed anything. I could verify this but it would take some doing. I do have the old Fedora system drive available. Do you really want me to test this?

For the life of me I don't see what has changed.

What are your thoughts? Why did FF behavior change?

Regards,

George...
Matthias,

The problem exists with the nightly builds as well.

Thanks,

George...
(In reply to George R. Goffe from comment #2)
> Matthias,
> 
> Thanks for responding to my bug report.
> 
> The FF version is the same and I suspect that youtube.com hasn't changed
> anything. I could verify this but it would take some doing. I do have the
> old Fedora system drive available. Do you really want me to test this?
> 
> For the life of me I don't see what has changed.

Youtube changes thing all the time... It's easy to check whether you're using the HTML5 player. Just right click on it. If you ge te stupid flash context many then it's flash.
It might be that all tabs are loaded for some reason, while normally only the tabs you selected load after startup. I think there was a setting for this.
Avada,

I think the odds of youtube changing something to cause this problem AND my installation of Fedora 21 happening at the same time are astronomical.

I'll try to bring up an earlier Fedora and check to see what happens and report back here.

You mention a setting above but didn't mention where the setting is located. Can you give me explicit instructions please? A youtube setting? A FF setting?

Thanks,

George...
(In reply to George R. Goffe from comment #5)
> Avada,
> 
> I think the odds of youtube changing something to cause this problem AND my
> installation of Fedora 21 happening at the same time are astronomical.
> 
> I'll try to bring up an earlier Fedora and check to see what happens and
> report back here.
> 


Not really. Youtube changes stuff all the time, so it might as well have happened when you installed Fedora.
Also it might behave differently with never OS versions. eg.: when you faked your UA to have XP as an OS you got served h264 streams instead of the VP9 ones.

> You mention a setting above but didn't mention where the setting is located.
> Can you give me explicit instructions please? A youtube setting? A FF
> setting?

I forgot. maybe it was removed by now. Loading all tabs at startup shouldn't happen. Try it with an empty profile, if it works properly you need to figure out what you changed.
Are you using mozilla's firefox package or something else?
Hi,

Ok... It's a sad story.

I made a vanilla profile and opened 50 tabs at once, NO addons or plugins. They ALL started. FF, version 38.0 by the way, went into what appeared to be a futex loop. I let it sit for about 20 minutes with NO discernible progress. ps -efadlT (show threads) showed me 109 threads of plugin.container.

FF also seems to be having trouble "remembering" its previous instance geometry at exit. It came up in full screen mode. Sigh... Also, "ctrl+-" with multiple taps on the "-" ONLY changed the fonts down in size ONE TIME but subsequent taps of the "-" with ctrl held down did change the size of the text in the title.

This is a newly installed Fedora 22 x86_64 system with ALL pkgs, etc. up to date as of just prior to this testing.

What are your thoughts?

George...
Flags: needinfo?(grgoffe)
By the way, the FF comes from the Mozilla tar.bz "tar ball".
(In reply to George R. Goffe from comment #7)
> I made a vanilla profile and opened 50 tabs at once, NO addons or plugins.
> They ALL started.
Previously you said "When I start Firefox ALL the YouTube videos start automatically." And now you're saying you're opening 50 tabs. It's not the same thing. When you open several tabs (from bookmarks for example) they always start to load simultaneously.


> FF also seems to be having trouble "remembering" its previous instance
> geometry at exit. It came up in full screen mode. Sigh... Also, "ctrl+-"
> with multiple taps on the "-" ONLY changed the fonts down in size ONE TIME
> but subsequent taps of the "-" with ctrl held down did change the size of
> the text in the title.
> 
> This is a newly installed Fedora 22 x86_64 system with ALL pkgs, etc. up to
> date as of just prior to this testing.
> 
> What are your thoughts?

It feels like somethings fubard at your end. These are not normal things.
Avada,

I use session manager who remembers all my tabs and can reinstates them at restart time.

A new profile does not have ANY plugins so I tried opening 50 and then exiting FF. NONE came back so I went to history (today) and selected the 50 and said start in tabs. This is what I was talking about in my last post.

The only other way I know of to get session manager type behavior is to kill the FF instance after opening 50 tabs BUT, FF doesn't take kindly to being killed like this... sometimes files get messed up... like my plugins list which disappeared recently.

Do you have any other ways of doing this with a new profile? I'm all ears. :-)

George...
The session manager is a built in feature. That's what the addon usses actually.
On the first page of the settings you need to set firefox to show windows and tabs from the last time.

"like my plugins list which disappeared recently."
This is not normal either.
Avada,

The vanilla profile does NOT show this behavior. I did receive NUMEROUS messages like these. What's the problem here?

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I went back to my "normal" profile and disabled the add-on that stops automatic start of vids. ALL the tabs with vids started... at once.

I have a misbehaving add-on?

What are your thoughts?

George...
(In reply to George R. Goffe from comment #12)
> Avada,
> 
> The vanilla profile does NOT show this behavior. I did receive NUMEROUS
> messages like these. What's the problem here?
> 
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
> 
> I went back to my "normal" profile and disabled the add-on that stops
> automatic start of vids. ALL the tabs with vids started... at once.
> 
> I have a misbehaving add-on?
> 
> What are your thoughts?
> 
> George...

Can't help you. I'm on windows 8.1. 
A misbehaving addon is always a possibility, but with the variety of other problems you claimed who knows what else is misbehaving on your system.
> normally only the tabs you selected load after startup. I think there was a setting for this.
General -> [x] Don't load tabs until selected

> The only other way I know of to get session manager type behavior is to kill the FF instance after opening 50 tabs
General -> When Nightly starts: [Show my windows and tabs from last time]

If you use add-ons please either reproduce without add-ons before filing a bug or figure out which add-on causes the problem and consider reporting the problem to the add-on's author instead.

For the VPDAU thing you'll have to google the solution.

There doesn't seem to be anything in this report that needs a fix on the Firefox side.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Nickolay,

Since the VDPAU messages appear right after starting FF AND in the same konsole AND never at other times, one would tend to believe that the two are related.

The all starting at once has been fixed with a plugin.

George...
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