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Re:Firefox 72.0 by jvzr on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:31AM (#21980839)
I love it and use it multiple (25+) times per day. My only wish is that it kept the interface from whichever player the videos comes from (eg. YouTube's, Netflix's, etc., especially for subtitles & platform-specific controls like Speed)
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Re:Firefox 72.0 by jannes on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:40AM (#21981587)
If Firefox kept any website-controlled interface it would give websites an opportunity to block the feature by overlaying it with a black rectangle.

Most content providers probably don't like this feature.

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Re:Firefox 72.0 by szatkus on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:48AM (#21981043)
That would be a tough one. There's no information which part of HTML is controls. Maybe they may hardcode this information for some popular players, but that would break as soon as for example Youtube decided to change the layout a bit.
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