Open Bug 1603957 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Moving to next tab while playing video in fullscreen using CTRL + TAB should not disable fullscreeness when a user return back to its previous tab.

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Version:
71 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
enhancement

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox71 --- affected
firefox72 --- affected
firefox73 --- affected

People

(Reporter: Prabesh432, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

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(2 files)

Part 2: Moving to next tab without pressing ESC or fullscreen. But sadly, it will remove the fullscreeness of last tab. Its really annoying when u have to make a video fullscreen again & again. Why can't a browser remember its last state?!
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Part 1: A demo, where a IT student is trying to learn HTML using VSCode and Mozilla Browser from YouTube's freecodecamp.org video. Where he later decide to use CTRL + Tab to see the HTML output in browser.
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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

For a student this is a great life hack when browser will remember its original state.
If u are in YouTube or playing any video online, and suddenly u decide to move to next tab without escaping (or pressing ESC) full-screen, then browser should remember it.

Or there should be an option to remember it. It would have been very helpful. It helps a lot if u have a habit of multitasking.

Attachment #9115947 - Attachment description: Screenshot from 2019-12-14 23-56-06.png → Part 2: Moving to next tab without pressing ESC or fullscreen. But sadly, it will remove the fullscreeness of last tab.
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
Attachment #9115948 - Attachment description: A demo, where a IT student is trying to learn HTML using VSCode and Mozilla Browser from YouTube's freecodecamp.org video. → Part 1: A demo, where a IT student is trying to learn HTML using VSCode and Mozilla Browser from YouTube's freecodecamp.org video. Where he later decide to use CTRL + Tab to see the HTML output in browser.
Attachment #9115947 - Attachment description: Part 2: Moving to next tab without pressing ESC or fullscreen. But sadly, it will remove the fullscreeness of last tab. → Part 2: Moving to next tab without pressing ESC or fullscreen. But sadly, it will remove the fullscreeness of last tab. Its really annoying when u have to make a video fullscreen again & again. Why can't a browser remember its last state?!

Hi,

Thanks for the details. I was able to reproduce on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS on Firefox Nightly version 73.0a1 (2019-12-12) (64-bit) and Release 71.0.
I've chosen a component so that it is reviewed.

Best regards, Clara.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox71: --- → affected
status-firefox72: --- → affected
status-firefox73: --- → affected
Component: Untriaged → Graphics
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core

I don't think this is a graphics issue. My guess is it should be somewhere in Firefox rather than Core, but I'm not sure exactly where.

Component: Graphics → Untriaged
Product: Core → Firefox
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser

I am NOT expecting to roll this feature by default.
But an option in about:config which triggers this would have been very helpful.
Ctrl+Tab is used a lot in the middle of watching videos to google search for something the viewer doesn't understand.

Firefox remembering the state of "fullscreeness" is a very cool thing to provide.
Save a lot of time.

Flags: needinfo?(dao+bmo)
Flags: needinfo?(dao+bmo)
Severity: normal → S3
Severity: normal → S3
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