1719381 - Play button on video disappearing when on pause

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Video/Audio Controls, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Just look at the example video on the MDN page about the <video> tag https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video

Use Firefox for Windows ( i haven't tried Linux nor Mac , i don't have them )

Actual results:

Before the first play, Firefox will show a big Play button. When you Pause the video, the button unexpectedly won't appear anymore.
This is not coherent.

Expected results:

I expect either the big button to never appear ( in Chrome it never does ), or to always show when paused of ended.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

I believe that is made by design, move this bug to video control's component.

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Yes, this is by design. Notably, this is also how YouTube embedded videos generally work.