Closed Bug 1542239 Opened 5 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Middle clicking any video on homepage at dailymotion starts the sound from the pick of the day videos

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P3)

Tracking

(firefox66 affected, firefox67 affected, firefox68 affected)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Tracking Status
firefox66 --- affected
firefox67 --- affected
firefox68 --- affected

People

(Reporter: atrif, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Keywords: regressionwindow-wanted, webcompat:needs-diagnosis, Whiteboard: [needsdiagnosis])

Affected versions

  • Firefox 67.0b8 (20190404130536)
  • Firefox 65.0 (20190124174741)
  • Firefox 68.0a1 (20190405095028)
  • Firefox 66.0.2 (20190326175229)

Affected platforms

  • macOS 10.14
  • Windows 10 x64
  • Ubuntu 18.04 x64

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Firefox and go to https://www.dailymotion.com/.
  2. Middle click on a random video under the pick of the day videos.

Expected result

  • The selected video opens in a new tab and no sound is played.

Actual result

  • The sound is played for the focused video from the top of the homepage.

Regression range

  • This is not a recent regression as I can reproduce on 55.0a1 (20170505030252) as well. I will investigate further in case of an old regression.

Additional Notes

  • The issue is not reproducible by right-clicking the video and selecting “Open Link in New Tab” context menu option.
Has Regression Range: --- → no
Has STR: --- → yes

Tested this with 3 different ways of opening the new tab: CTRL + left click, right click and open in new tab, middle click.

  • In Firefox, Edge, and Chrome CTRL + left click behaves per the unexpected case of the bug.
  • In Firefox, Edge, and Chrome right click and open in new tab behaves per the expected case.
  • In Firefox middle click behaves like CTRL + left click.
  • In Edge and Chrome middle click behaves like right click and open in new tab.

My guess is that daily motion has a click handler somewhere that is setting video.muted = false, and that it misbehaves when opening videos via CTRL clicking (or middle clicking in the Firefox case).

Based on the above, I think most of this is a site issue. I'm going to move this to web compat regarding the different middle click behaviour (since Firefox differs here). Is our middle click behaviour being different with links a known thing? Is it a concern?

Component: Audio/Video → Desktop
Product: Core → Web Compatibility
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [needsdiagnosis]

See bug 1547409. Moving webcompat whiteboard tags to keywords.

Mode: going through the pile of old issues.

hmm I'm trying to reproduce this with the keyboard (instead of the mouse) and I can't reproduce. Probably the site has changed since.
Oana could you confirm?

Flags: needinfo?(oana.arbuzov)

Karl, I can't reproduce the issue on my side (ctrl+left click/middle mouse click/ctrl+right click>open new tab). The video is opened in a new tab without sound.
https://prnt.sc/10z8jmg

Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 89.0a1 (2021-03-29)
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Flags: needinfo?(oana.arbuzov)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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