658867 - HTML5 Volume choice is not remembered In Youtube

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rakshith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110521 Firefox/6.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110521 Firefox/6.0a1

The HTML5 experimental version of YouTube Doesn't save our volume preference when viewing videos in HTML5. Instead it always defaults to full volume everytime a new video is loaded. Cant Firefox Save/Cache site specific Preference On HTML5 sites?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go here to enable HTML5 video in YouTube www.youtube.com/html5   and click join
2.load any new video (new ones will be html5 ready)
3.change volume levels.
4. load another (different) html5 video and see the volume slider in default (FULL)

Actual Results:  
The HTML5 Preference in pages aren't saved/Cached in Firefox 

Expected Results:  
User Preference on sites must be saved like the saved preference In Adobe flash videos. If HTML5 Preference is not saved and is slow/buggy, why would user switch from flash to html5?

The HTML5 in YouTube is generally very slow.

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Reproduced.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110522 Firefox/6.0a1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24
Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.8.131 Version/11.11

What makes you think this is a bug in Firefox? Does YouTube ask Firefox to save the volume level?

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

We've previously discussed this, and decided against persisting the volume level. Volume settings are most useful per-video (eg loud commercial vs quiet narration), and it would be annoying to have to constantly adjust the volume back and forth for each one.