1470377 - Video context menu does not stay on screen and it pauses the video on Twitter

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P3)

Description

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

[Affected versions]:
- Firefox 61.0build3
- Latest Nightly 62.0a1
- Firefox 52.9.0esr

[Affected platforms]:
- macOS 10.13
- Ubuntu 18.04 64bit

[Unaffected platforms]:
- Windows 10 64bit
- Windows 7 64bit

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Start Firefox
2. Visit any twitter page that has a video (eg: https://twitter.com/IEM)
3. Scroll down the page to a video
4. Start the video (if it does not start on focus) and right click on it

[Expected result]:
- Context menu opens and user can copy video address.

[Actual result]:
- Context menu does not stay on page, the user is unable to click Copy video address unless right click is kept pressed and hover over the button, then left click.

[Regression range]:
- This is not a recent regression since it reproduces back to 52.7esr and 57RC. Will investigate further to see if it's an old regression ASAP.

[Additional notes]:
- On Windows operating systems the video is paused on right click but the context menu does not disappear, which again I'm not sure if it's the right behaviour here.
- Chrome does not manifest either of these behaviours.

Comment 1

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: Screencast showing the issue

Here is a screencast showing the issue

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Pretty sure that context menu is provided by twitter and not by us, so if anything I suspect this is a site issue on twitter.com .

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Hrm, I can't get a context menu in Firefox or Chrome, right-click just pauses for me.

Comment 4

[Maria Berlinger [:mberlinger], Services QA]

On older builds e.g. Firefox 10, Firefox 20, Firefox 30 the video container is not displayed and from Firefox 40 to 45 it shows the following message error "We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser".

On Firefox 45 the video container is shown but you can't play the video instead if right click on video container the context menu is shown and it doesn't stay.

Based on the above it doesn't seem to be a regression.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

See bug 1547409. Moving webcompat whiteboard tags to keywords.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Contacted twitter on their mailing-list

Comment 7

[Raul Bucata]

It seems that the issue is no longer reproducible, as following the steps to reproduce, I was able to trigger the option and use it to copy the address of a video in a separate tab:

https://media.giphy.com/media/idXQajcHg1ZgQoMnGu/giphy.gif

Bogdan, can you confirm, please?

Tested with:

Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 101.0a1 (2022-04-12) (64-bit)
Operating System: Windows 10 PRO x64

Comment 8

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

(In reply to raul softvision from comment #7)

Bogdan, can you confirm, please?

Yes, I can confirm that this is no longer an issue using latest Firefox builds. I'll go ahead and close this bug as invalid.

Comment 9

[Raul Bucata]

Thank you, Bogdan, for confirming.