1285628 - New tab on right click on a Youtube video, starts streaming the video.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1262053

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Sebastin Santy [:seban]]

Steps to Reproduce:
1)Visit youtube.com
2)Right click any video url and open in a new tab

Actual Results:
The video starts streaming in the new tab

Expected Results:
The video should be paused until the tab is focused for the first time. 

PS: Reproduce the same in Safari/Chrome to observe the difference.

Comment 1

[Amila indrajith]

I'm kind of new to the open source projects and I like to contribute here.I'm planning to work on this bug.Could someone help me to start things? where should I start from the code ? What kind of things I should know ?I'm very glad if someone can help me to sort out things.

Comment 2

[Sebastin Santy [:seban]]

Hi Amila,

You can start by reading doc on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Firefox_build. If you prefer video tutorials: http://codefirefox.com. I don't know exactly how to solve this. I'll try to connect someone on this bug.

Comment 3

[Sebastin Santy [:seban]]

Hi Johann,

Can you help in connect someone who is familiar in this field? Thanks in advance.

Comment 4

[Amila indrajith]

(In reply to Sebastin Santy [:seban] from comment #2)
> Hi Amila,
> 
> You can start by reading doc on
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/
> Build_Instructions/Simple_Firefox_build. If you prefer video tutorials:
> http://codefirefox.com. I don't know exactly how to solve this. I'll try to
> connect someone on this bug.

Hi Sebastin,

Thanks for the reply.I have build source code.But I have no idea where should I start in the source.could you guide me to find the section in the source?

Comment 5

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Amila, sorry for this, but I doubt that this is a good first bug to work on. You can find a number of better bugs here: http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?unowned=1&simple=1. If you need any help please let me know.

Sebastin, can you please help us figure out if this is caused by youtube.com or by Firefox? E.g. you could check if the same thing happens on other video sites or if changing your user agent string changes the site behavior.

Comment 6

[Amila indrajith]

Johann, Thanks for the reply I am working on that link.

Comment 7

[Sebastin Santy [:seban]]

This is caused by the Firefox (I guess). I overrided the user agent string, but it showed the same behaviour. I checked with maker.tv and this problem exists there too.

Comment 8

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Thanks, that means this is not a case for evangelism. I fear this behavior may be specific to how Firefox handles videos, moving to the Audio/Video components where hopefully people know if this is intentional.

Comment 9

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

(In reply to Sebastin Santy [:seban] from comment #7)
> This is caused by the Firefox (I guess).

Chrome introduced this feature recently. Firefox works like all the other browsers but we will add this functionality soon. You can work around the YouTube case by disabling auto-play in the YouTube UI in the meanwhile.

Alastor - can you dup this bug please?

Comment 10

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

We would implement this feature in the bug1262053.