Closed Bug 1638494 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Change default location of Picture-in-Picture button on videos

Categories

(Toolkit :: Video/Audio Controls, enhancement)

enhancement

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: mozilla-bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

View page with video and activate it. Hover over video with cursor.

Actual results:

Picture-in-Picture button appears at ~(X_max, Y_max / 2).

After the bottom edge of the video, the horizon line halfway down is the worst possible place for the Picture-in-Picture button to appear. I have encountered multiple sites where it interferes with the vertically centered timeline control.

Expected results:

According to the Firefox 74.0 release notes, a fix was put in to move the button in one particular high-profile(?) use-case where the default location on the right interfered with Instagram's "Next" button. There are so many sites, high-profile and otherwise, with functionality along the vertically centered horizon line, that rather than special-casing them one-by-one, or forcing the user to work around the problem once a pref is belatedly added for the button location (Bug 1550453), a more sensible default should be chosen.

In my online video experience (which is relatively broad and extensive, and goes back to the dawn of the web), the top edge is the least likely to contain video controls. Once in a blue moon, there'll be a button at the top-left or top-right, but I don't believe I've ever seen a button at the top-center (aside from navigation tiles that don't show up until the video is over).

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Video/Audio Controls
Product: Firefox → Toolkit

I just added some additional thoughts on this over at Bug 1550453.

Mike, what do you think we should do here?

Type: defect → enhancement
Flags: needinfo?(mconley)
Summary: Picture-in-Picture button default location on right interferes with UI on many sites → Change default location of Picture-in-Picture button on videos

Redirecting to astevenson.

Flags: needinfo?(mconley) → needinfo?(astevenson)

Hi Dan, thanks for the feedback. When we built the PIP feature into Firefox we provided multiple ways to access it. Each comes with a set of limitations. Keyboard controls are sometimes hard to remember, right clicking is occasionally blocked by the website requiring a second click, and overlaying a button could interfere with content on some pages. We tried to minimize the size of the icon in the hidden state to reduce annoyances like this, where it's not accessible.

In our research and testing, we found the current position to be the best balance of all trade offs. We provided multiple methods of accessing the feature to ensure it would be accessible across a wider range of websites.

We will take your feedback for consideration for the next feature review, but for now I'm closing this bug as we do not plan to change the default button location in the near term.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(astevenson)
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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