957751 - Flash Player and playback controls on YouTube and other video players are tiny

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Shela]

Attachment: Screenshot of a YouTube video using Flash Player in Firefox

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131205075310

Steps to reproduce:

I'm running Windows 8.1 on a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro (which has a really high resolution).

For YouTube:
1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and make sure that HTML5 player is disabled. (There should be an orange box with a triangle next to the words "The default player is currently used." If not click the "Use the default player" button.)
2. Go to any YouTube video.

For other video players:
1. Go to a video on PutLocker, ShareSock, etc. (For example: http://www.putlocker.com/file/7F2800DAEFC5A6BC#)
2. Play the video.

For Flash games:
1. Open a Flash game on Armor Games, Newgrounds, etc. (For example: http://armorgames.com/play/14662/400-years)

Compare each of the above with the same pages opened in Internet Explorer.

Attempted fixes:
a. Zoom in on page using Ctrl+ (or Ctrl-scroll)
b. Change devPixelsPerPx to 5


Actual results:

For YouTube and other video players:
Video playback controls (play/pause, volume, slider, full screen) are much smaller than is comfortable (see attached image).

For Flash games:
The game scales down and fills up only the top-left corner of the space that it should.

With attempted fixes:
a. Everything on the page except for the playback controls (and Flash game) increases in size.
b. Browser UI and page content increases in size, except for playback controls and Flash game.


Expected results:

Expected video playback controls and other Flash Player content to be of a size comparable to that of Internet Explorer.

Comment 1

[sjw]

Seems like you changed a setting in Flash Player. This is not a bug on Firefox.

Comment 2

[Shela]

This doesn't seem likely to me... YouTube videos and other Flash Player content have been like this in Firefox since I first got my computer, and it all works fine in Internet Explorer. Also, my friend with the same computer (who just got his computer on New Years, a week ago) has this problem, too. 

In any case (and I know this probably isn't the best place to ask this, but no one else seems to know the answer), if this is a Flash Player setting, what do I do to fix the problem?