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How can I disable the screensaver while playing video in fullscreen?

Romain Failliot
Romain Failliot
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Hi!

HTML5 is great and I hope to get rid of Flash as soon as possible. That said, something is still bothering me when I play an HTML5 video (on youtube for instance): the screensaver is still on even though I'm full-screen.

Is there a config I missed or is it a bug within Firefox?

(I'm using Arch Linux with GNOME)

Hi! HTML5 is great and I hope to get rid of Flash as soon as possible. That said, something is still bothering me when I play an HTML5 video (on youtube for instance): the screensaver is still on even though I'm full-screen. Is there a config I missed or is it a bug within Firefox? (I'm using Arch Linux with GNOME)

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  • bug 517870 - Video should disable screensaver during playback

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Wesley Branton
Wesley Branton
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To the best of my knowledge, the screensaver will always display if there is no mouse movement for a user specified amount of time. This is not a Firefox feature, this is a feature with your operating system.
I am pretty sure that you cannot disable this feature only when playing Flash or HTML5 content in fullscreen.

There may be a Firefox add-on for this, but I am not 100% sure.

cor-el
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See:

  • bug 517870 - Video should disable screensaver during playback

Please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

the-edmeister
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Per this comment - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517870#c36 - a fix is in the works for Firefox 30.