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by dsissitka 1354 days ago
I tried to make the switch after last week's uBlock Origin Lite post but there are just so many rough edges. For example:

1) You go to https://i.imgur.com/vuUyLnz.gifv.

2) You decide to skip the beginning so you "Right Click > Show Controls" and use the controls to skip the beginning.

3) You decide to skip to the end so you move your mouse over to where the controls should be but they don't reappear.

4) They're gone and the only way to get them back is to "Right Click > Show Controls" again.

There are a lot of rough edges like that. I'd almost rather not use browsers than use Firefox in its current state.
3 comments
stonewareslord 1354 days ago
Is it not this way in chrome too? I know imgur messes with the ui for no good reason.

Your other commentmentions i.imgur.com being the case? Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?

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dsissitka 1354 days ago
> Is it not this way in chrome too?

Afraid not. In Chrome and Safari the controls reappear in step 3. In Firefox step 4 is required.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was an imgur thing but I have seen it in non-imgur embeds on reddit.

> Maybe libredirext can help you never hit the i. Site?

That could work. Thank you!

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Arnavion 1353 days ago
It's an imgur thing. It disables controls on every interaction with the video by doing `.controls = false` on the video element.

Chrome seems to ignore this attribute being set to false and continue to show controls anyway, which appears to be a spec violation from my reading of it. Of course it ends up being a desirable behavior in this case.

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kevingadd 1354 days ago
imgur is intentionally disabling the controls in order to show their custom buggy ones, I don't know what you expect Firefox to do here.
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dsissitka 1354 days ago
Sounds like you're getting redirected to https://imgur.com/vuUyLnz. Make sure you end up at https://i.imgur.com/vuUyLnz.gifv.
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yoasif_ 1354 days ago
This is weird. Why not just go to https://i.imgur.com/vuUyLnz.mp4 ?
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dsissitka 1354 days ago
I mostly encounter them on reddit and it seems they just happen to use gifv.

Just skimming through the first few pages and it looks like all of the videos are gifv:

NSFW

https://old.reddit.com/domain/imgur.com/

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