Firefox video double plays frequently after starting maximum window size

[Xeno Campanoli]

Firefox playing google video sometimes starts to play the smaller window after a bit when you leave it around while playing the maximum window. This is intermittent, but it doesn't appear to be movie dependent. It could also be a problem just with Google, but it doesn't seem likely. Steps include:

1. Using the standard firefox on Gutsy (looks like 2.0.0.4) go to the Google video site and pull up a full length video that plays for more than a few minutes.
2. Evoke the video.
3. Some time after the expansion button becomes available to make the video full screen, hit it. I've done this mostly by hitting the tile rather than the pulldown.
4. Once the video has come up full screen, without touching any functional buttons there, check back with the smaller screen window, which should still be there. Most of the time it will in fact just have a label saying the video is being played on a larger window. Reproduction circumstances I've seen include:
  a. Just waiting awhile, and then the video will begin to play on the smaller windows.
  b. Sometimes going back and forth between the windows a few times, again without touching anything functional, seems to cause the video to begin on the smaller window. This is especially true if the video has been playing for awhile.
  c. It seems that the longer you play a video on a maximum window with the original still there, the more likely it will be to start the same video simultaneously for some reason on the smaller window too, usually subsequent to some window access by the mouse.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Are you able to reproduce this issue with newest firefox 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu3
What video player are you using to reproduce this.

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

I'm sorry. I had an addendum on that, but I must not have saved it. I'm using the latest 2.0.0.4 Firefox that comes by default with Gutsy. That is the only testing I've done on this, though I remember seeing this problem when I had dapper up on that machine. I haven't had a chance to test it outside of Gutsy, and I wanted to establish for sure that it was a fixable bug, and not a Google bug, if possible, before getting to far into it. I'll be glad to try other things as they are requested. xc

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

I'm using the Adobe plugin that gets downloaded when Google video prompts for it. I am not using a native Ubuntu plugin. Perhaps that means I'm barking up the wrong tree here. Please advise on how to switch to a native Ubuntu plugin:

xeno@choochoo:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls -al *.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 xeno xeno 856 2004-05-20 14:34 flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 xeno xeno 7040080 2007-06-04 15:55 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 xeno xeno 2788848 2006-03-29 00:49 nprhapengine.so
xeno@choochoo:~/.mozilla/plugins$ md5sum *.*
a81fd3b03b8c6d6e5a14298110718d3f flashplayer.xpt
0273c3d183c8665f21175896ae4d1b4e libflashplayer.so
1e997cfc25f14ac6d7451dded887d7bc nprhapengine.so
xeno@choochoo:~/.mozilla/plugins$ cksum *.*
1969355171 856 flashplayer.xpt
683804691 7040080 libflashplayer.so
3484869826 2788848 nprhapengine.so

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

xeno@choochoo:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
     2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
 *** 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
xeno@choochoo:~$

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

Playing a 2 hour video right now, I just got another reproduction of this bug, this time spontaneous:

1. Started the two hour google video.
2. Expanded to full page, leaving the page for regular size in it's frozen state.
3. Played the video for well past the first hour.

Symptom: At some point a few minutes ago I noticed the echoing of the play on the other smaller version of the page, so at some point, probably very recently in the last 10 or so minutes, after the half point, the smaller window spontaneously began to play with absolutely no feedback from me. This is pretty consistent with my experience. Sometimes it plays in parallel sooner, but typically if you leave it alone and the video plays long enough it will start up the dormant smaller play window. Perhaps it's also important to say here that this is designed to leave the smaller play window in place in its dormant state, apparently, because if you delete it you will be unable to select the menu option that takes you back to that state (I'm perhaps presuming, and it may be that general assessment of this functionality is due).

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

Here is the policy statement for the above test instance:

xeno@choochoo:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thank you for taking the time to file this ubg report with us. Closing due to age. If this is still a problem in 3.0.7 please reopen this bug.
Also please reopen with all new information on how to reproduce this bug by giving us step by step instructions.
We also need what happens what is expected to happen.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!