1993468 - Fullscreen 'Subtitles/CC turned on' notification obscures subs for long period.

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Media, defect)

Description

[Jack]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 13; Mobile; rv:143.0) Gecko/143.0 Firefox/143.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Watch landscape orientation video in fullscreen 8 (e.g. YouTube) on mobile device
2. Switch on CC (Closed Captions or Subtitles)
3. 'Subtitles/CC turned on' notification obscures the subtitles for around 10 seconds

Actual results:

Can't read subtitles for 10 seconds, which was point of switching them on.
Also, that significant area of the video is obscured due to black background to notification.

Expected results:

Subtitles turn on and any notification is minimal, quick and unobtrusive.
Notification is probably needed in case no subs exist to display, so in fullscreen mode, I suggest:
The usual notification appears, top left of screen, but only for 2 seconds, and with grey, semi opaque background.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox for Android::Media' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:titouan, could you have a look please?

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Comment 3

[Titouan Thibaud [:titouan]]

Attachment: subtitles-notification.mp4

Thanks for reporting this bug.
Here is a video of the bug being reproduced.

I asked UX for insights about how we should solve that issue.

Comment 4

[Titouan Thibaud [:titouan]]

Actually I just test on Chrome, and I get the exact same behavior.
This is a bug on their website.

I'll close it as INVALID, but feel free to reopen it with more details if you think there's anything I missed, and the bug can be reproduced on other websites that don't behave the same on other browsers.