Closed Bug 826708 Opened 12 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Full Screen mode won't let you use the other monitor simultaneously

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 724554

People

(Reporter: R.Kelley.Cook, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20121231071231

Steps to reproduce:

1) Use a computer with multiple displays, have Firefox windows open on both monitors.
2) Enable HTML5 option in youtube: https://www.youtube.com/html5
3) Begin watching any video and click on the full screen icon.  Firefox will go into fullscreen mode and announce it.
4) Click on a firefox web page on the other monitor.


Actual results:

Video on the other monitor will exit full screen mode and go back to the small window within the webpage.


Expected results:

The video should have continued playing as a full screen app.
This seems related to Bug 527298 but that was with a much older version of Firefox and specifically related to using Flash in fullscreen mode.  

Also I can't reproduce that particular bug when youtubes html5 option is off and it is using the flash video player.  In that case Firefox will let me play a full screen video while using the other one for work.
Confirmed problem in html5 mode with both click/alt+tab exiting from fullscreen, no problem if flash enabled
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20130107 Firefox/20.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → General
Depends on: 527298
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 7 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Version: 18 Branch → Trunk
This is duplicate of bug 724554 which has been resolved
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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