Closed Bug 1164734 Opened 9 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Right-clicking on Yahoo! HTML videos is treated as a left-click (opens ad page in new tab or pauses video) in Firefox, but not Chrome

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(platform-rel -, firefox38 wontfix, firefox38.0.5 wontfix, firefox39 wontfix, firefox40 wontfix, firefox41 wontfix, firefox42 wontfix, firefox49 wontfix)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
platform-rel --- -
firefox38 --- wontfix
firefox38.0.5 --- wontfix
firefox39 --- wontfix
firefox40 --- wontfix
firefox41 --- wontfix
firefox42 --- wontfix
firefox49 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: cpeterson, Unassigned)

Details

STR:
1. Disable Flash ("Never Activate" setting)
2. Load https://screen.yahoo.com/other-space/episode-1-great-beyond-beyond-070100400.html
3. When the video starts playing, right-click on it to ensure that it is HTML5 video and not Flash.

RESULT:
Right-clicking pauses the video as if you left-clicked. However, right-clicking a second time does not resume video playback. This happens in Firefox but not Chrome.

This only seems to happen for Yahoo!'s HTML5 videos. I can't reproduce on YouTube.

I'm using Firefox 38 on OS X 10.10.3.
Kev, do you have a contact on the Yahoo! Screen video team? Their HTML5 video controls are misbehaving in Firefox but not Chrome.
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Filed with Yahoo!; will update as I get a expected time to fix or a wontfix.
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
status-firefox42: --- → affected
Summary: Right-clicking on Yahoo! HTML videos is treated as a left-click ("pause") in Firefox, but not Chrome → Right-clicking on Yahoo! HTML videos is treated as a left-click (opens ad page in new tab or pauses video) in Firefox, but not Chrome
Kev, would it be helpful if we try to find the bug for them? (Unless you know if they already have a fix in the pipeline).
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Believe this was addressed some time ago. Closing it out. WFM.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
I can still reproduce this in Nightly 49 when right-clicking on the HTML5 video with my laptop's trackpad or a real mouse. To receive HTML5 video instead of Flash from Yahoo, you must set Flash as "Never Activate" in the Add-ons Manager. Right-clicking on the HTML5 video works correctly in Chrome 50.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
status-firefox49: --- → affected
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
Hallvord, can you dig in here?
Flags: needinfo?(hsteen)
On further investigation, I don't think we need to do anything here. This is a problem in the Yahoo video player and not a bug in Firefox. The video player has similar pause-on-left-click problems in Chrome when Flash is enabled (the reverse of the Firefox STR). I don't think further debugging of this problem is a good use of our time.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago → 8 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(hsteen)
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Will flag with Yahoo team though. Wasn't sure if it was any HTML5 video; if it's Yahoo's player, we can ask them to look into it. Thanks, Chris.
Sounds good, thanks Chris and Kev.
platform-rel: --- → ?
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
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