(In reply to comment #31) > (In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari (needinfo? me!) (slow responsiveness, > emailacopolypse) from comment #29) > > (In reply to comment #28) > > > We should disable the screen save for non-fullscreen playback too. > > > > Why? Some websites use <video> as an element in their design these days > > (for example, as the page background.) It seems counter intuitive for such > > a website to disable the screen saver! > > Because sometimes you want to watch a video non-fullscreen with duration > longer > than your screensaver's timeout? I certainly don't fullscreen all the videos I > watch. > > I think it would be hard to programmatically distinguish between the non > fullscreen foreground case and all permutations of the > video-as-page-background > use case you describe.
Can we at least do that for videos which have started playback as a result of a user action? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434476 Title: screensaver starts while playing HTML5 videos Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox-3.5 karmic alpha6 + updates - click on a .ogv video link - after watching some time, screensaver starts. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Sep 22 08:45:53 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic SourcePackage: firefox-3.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/434476/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
