799117 - On YouTube - the Pop Out option and "Large player"/"Small player" buttons don't work on video played at current time

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

On YouTube in context menu choose "Copy URL at current time", open it in new tab and try "Pop out" from context menu.

1. Open a tab with a video on www.youtube.com;
2. Right click for context menu;
3. Select "Copy video URL at current time";
4. Open new tab;
5. Paste and go URL at current time;
6. Right click for context menu;
7. Select "Pop out".

Expected result:
A new window should pop out playing the video.

Actual result:
No action is performed.

(HTML5 mode is working.)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Does it work in Safari ?

Comment 2

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Yes it works. It works also in Google Chrome.

Also "Large player" and "Small player" buttons are not working when the video is played after step 5.

Comment 3

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I can reproduce this (on OS X 10.7.5), in today's mozilla-central nightly and in FF 15.0.1.  But I can't reproduce this in FF 15.0.1 on OS X 10.5.8, where a different version of Flash is installed (10.3.183.18).  I strongly suspect this is a Flash bug.

Here's better STR:

1) Visit http://www.youtube.com/, right-click on the image for one of the example videos listed under From YouTube, and choose "Copy Link Location".
2) Open another tab, paste this link into the location bar, and add "#t=1s" to the end of it.
3) Hit Enter to visit the page, and you can see the bug.

The bug happens at step 2 even if you quit Firefox and restart it.

So adding "#t=1s" makes all the difference here, but I can't see how this would make any difference to Firefox's behavior.  More evidence that this is a Flash bug.

Comment 5

[smadayag]

Firefox uses the same plugin on OS X as with most other browsers.  there seems to be no issue on Safari or Opera, so there is a good chance the issue is in firefox... unless the youtube player is doing something different with firefox detection.

Comment 6

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

smadayag, can you tell us (in some detail) what Flash does differently when "#t=1s" is appended to one of its URLs?

Or does Flash do *anything* differently?  If not, this is most likely a YouTube problem.

Comment 7

[smadayag]

the player doesn't do anything special i don't think...  i'm assuming youtube is using that identifier to determine where to start playing the video.  the "#" seems to be the issue.  if it is replaced with an "&" the issue doesn't appear.

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Youtube-Flash is dead.