639582 - native video playback: No visible GUI

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 449358

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Jan D]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.14

When a video is natively played in Firefox (like: http://bit.ly/f3Y7wr) the video can be only controlled via the context menu. As the context menu is not visible many user may not be aware of the possibility to control the video playback. The current solution violates standards of video playback as well since users will probably assume that the video is controlled like on e.g. youtube.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
The context menu needs to be called for controlling video playback

Expected Results:  
If the user moves the cursor over the content a visible GUI should appear that enables video control via play/pause button and a slider.

Comment 1

[Matthew Gregan [:kinetik]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> If the user moves the cursor over the content a visible GUI should appear that
> enables video control via play/pause button and a slider.

This is what happens.  It works for me.  Are you sure a plugin isn't taking control of playback on your machine?  Can you tell me what's in the context menu, and what's in about:plugins?

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Jan, I found using Noscript and not fully allowing permission for that page (and just clicking the webm video to allow that on it's own; caused something similar.

If you have noscript installed, does this still occur after disabling it?

Failing that, how about safe mode?
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 3

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

If it's due to noscript or javascript disabled, that's bug 449358. Please let us know if that's the case.

Comment 4

[Jan D]

You are right, enabling Javascript makes it work. So: duplicate of bug 449358