1797340 - Tapping Fullscreen Video Brings Up Phone Status Bar Instead Of Interacting With Page Content

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Media, defect)

Description

[gajbooks]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 11; Mobile; rv:106.0) Gecko/106.0 Firefox/106.0

Steps to reproduce:

View any web video (Specifically YouTube, but other sites and players are affected) in full screen, allow player controls to fade out, then tap on the center of the screen to bring up controls. Using LM-G820UM, Android 11 version G820UM30b.

Actual results:

Tapping on the maximized video to bring up the controls causes the phone status bar (clock, battery, etc) to appear for a fraction of a second as if swiping down from the top of the screen, and the tap does not register with Firefox, making interacting with fullscreen videos inconsistent and difficult. Bug does not occur when media.videocontrols.lock-video-orientation is set to false (default was changed to "true" in Firefox for Android 106). Issue is intermittent and seems more prevalent with older installs, but is present on even fresh installs and beta versions.

Expected results:

The user should be able to easily utilize the controls for videos when in full screen mode. The one other phone I have access to (Motorola E5 Play, Android 8) seems to function as expected.

Comment 1

[gajbooks]

Additional info: YouTube appears to rotate the screen orientation regardless of the lock-video-orientation setting, which also causes this issue. It is likely that the configuration is not to blame for this new issue.

Comment 2

[Mira Lobontiu (Android QA)]

Attachment: bug1797340.mp4

I was able to reproduce this on an Oppo Find X3 Lite (Android 11) devices, on RC 117.0, Nightly 118.0a1 from 8/24.

I had "auto-rotate" disabled, so every time I touched the fullscreen video for the first time, the phone displayed the main button from the homescreen. Touching the video for the second time, displayed the video control options.

I was not able to reproduce this on the following devices: Google Pixel 6 (Android 14), Xiaomi Mi8 Lite (Android 10).

Comment 3

[Mira Lobontiu (Android QA)]

Attachment: logcat.txt

Comment 4

[Oana Horvath [:ohorvath - out of office]]

I was able to reproduce the scenario from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1797340#c2, but with auto-rotate enabled (default settings), the system navigation buttons will appear in fullscreen, and you can't dismiss them. This also happens on other websites, not isolated to youtube.
My device is a Pixel 2, Android 11.

Comment 6

[Lorand Janos]

I also managed to reproduce this issue, but only partially (the status bar was cut), the device buttons also, and only on private browsing mode, using a Xiaomi Mi11 Lite (Android 11)
On the latest Beta 120.0b9 and RC 120.0 builds I didn't manage to reproduce the issue.
Screenshot of the issue is in the duplicated ticket.

Comment 7

[eclaudiu64]

Attachment: mobizen_20231222_184449.mp4

I can reproduce this error. I get the status bar at the top of all YouTube videos, I put video capture. It happens in all Nightly, Beta and Stable builds.

Comment 11

[eclaudiu64]

I can still reproduce this error on the latest versions, Firefox 124, Firefox Beta 125 and Firefox Nightly 126. It's been a while since I can reproduce this error, can it be fixed?

Comment 12

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

eclaudiu64, looks like this bug is only reproducible on some devices. What device do you have?

Comment 13

[eclaudiu64]

(In reply to Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] from comment #12)

eclaudiu64, looks like this bug is only reproducible on some devices. What device do you have?

I use Samsung and Motorola, Android 10, Android 11 and Android 13.