530114 - Odd situation creates a scenario where a user experiences a stack of playing full-screen videos

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 521129

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Tested in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3) Gecko/20091115 Firefox/3.6b3

Currently, a user is able to create a scenario where a stack (i.e., more than one video overlaid on top of another) of full-screen videos. Each video plays on-top of the other, and requires individual interaction. Each video requires action from the user to close or stop each, to mute each, to quit each.

Steps to reproduce: 

1. Open a tab, (i.e., Google)
2. Start listening to The Police http://tinyvid.tv/show/39xfo2le1ys9y
3. While enjoying The Police, enter full-screen.
4. Currently, the only allowable shortcut in full-screen is CMD-Q, let's hit that.
5. The user should be presented with Firefox in an odd state that brings forth the browser on top of the full-screen video. An awkward situation, but let's continue.
6. Enter full-screen on the same video in the same tab.

ER: Since the same video is already playing full-screen, it should re-enter that state and push the browser dialog behind.

AR: A second video begins to play full-screen on-top of the existent and already playing full-screen video. It creates a stack of full-screen videos.

Now as much as I like The Police, this could get ugly with some scripting to create annoyance scenarios on accidental click of a running script (i.e, Rick Roll).

In any case, there should not be a way to create a situation where we have videos in full-screen playing on-top of other full-screen videos. If puts the user in an extremely awkward and confusing situation.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

A more sane approach to duplicating this behaviour is to perform the following

1. Start watching an OGG video such as the aforementioned URL.
2. Enter Full-Screen mode on video
3. Pull up Expose  in Mac OS X and select Firefox to bring it to the front.
4. Enter Full-Screen mode on same video

You will get a stacked full-screen scenario on the same video.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

bug 530661 addresses the need to improve handling of Exposé with full-screen video playback

The question here is, do we allow playback of simultaneous fullscreen videos? If not how we do prevent this and restore the status quo.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to reproduce: 
> 
> 1. Open a tab, (i.e., Google)
> 2. Start listening to The Police http://tinyvid.tv/show/39xfo2le1ys9y
> 3. While enjoying The Police, enter full-screen.
> 4. Currently, the only allowable shortcut in full-screen is CMD-Q, let's hit
> that.
> 5. The user should be presented with Firefox in an odd state that brings forth
> the browser on top of the full-screen video. An awkward situation, but let's
> continue.
> 6. Enter full-screen on the same video in the same tab.

How's this in the latest nightly?

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Steps to reproduce: 
> > 
> > 1. Open a tab, (i.e., Google)
> > 2. Start listening to The Police http://tinyvid.tv/show/39xfo2le1ys9y
> > 3. While enjoying The Police, enter full-screen.
> > 4. Currently, the only allowable shortcut in full-screen is CMD-Q, let's hit
> > that.
> > 5. The user should be presented with Firefox in an odd state that brings forth
> > the browser on top of the full-screen video. An awkward situation, but let's
> > continue.
> > 6. Enter full-screen on the same video in the same tab.
> 
> How's this in the latest nightly?

Looks like this is resolved fixed with bug 521129

tested on latest nightly Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b5pre) Gecko/20091126 Namoroka/3.6b5pre