1502046 - Remove temporary autoplay permission when navtigate to other page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

According to P16 [1], everytime we navigate to new page, temporary autoplay permission should be revoked.

When we moved temporary permission to front-end in bug1476555, we broke this behavior.

[1] https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/N2MD6ZV8CMG#/screens/306583366

Comment 1

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

The current behavior is that the temporary permission would be kept when user navigate to the page which is in the same origin.

Comment 2

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

Attachment: Bug 1502046 - part1 : remove autoplay temporary permission whenever page's url changes.

According to UX spec P16 [1], everytime we navigate to new page, temporary autoplay permission should be revoked.

[1] https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/N2MD6ZV8CMG#/screens/306583366

Comment 3

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

Attachment: Bug 1502046 - part2 : add test.

Comment 4

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

(In reply to Alastor Wu [:alwu] from comment #0)
> According to P16 [1], everytime we navigate to new page, temporary autoplay
> permission should be revoked.
> 
> When we moved temporary permission to front-end in bug1476555, we broke this
> behavior.
> 
> [1] https://mozilla.invisionapp.com/share/N2MD6ZV8CMG#/screens/306583366

I think the UX spec here is using the term "temp permission" to mean "gesture activation", not a temporary permission granted by the user via a door hanger prompt. That part of the spec was drafted before the doorhanger was in our UI.

Comment 5

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

According to our internal discussion, we want to keep autoplay temporary permission as same as other permissions, so we don't need this change.

Comment 6

[Stephan Sokolow]

In case it helps anyone who winds up here, the workaround I've been using since YouTube implemented "load a new video without actually reloading the page" is to build a habit of navigating video sites by middle-clicking links and then middle-clicking the active tab.