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Picture-in-picture Pause button not working

alice.huixi.wang
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I really love the picture-in-picture feature. It made me not use Chrome and switch to Firefox. I've been using the picture-in-picture feature a lot and noticed that the pause button has stopped working. It definitely used to work when I first started using this feature. When I hover my mouse over it, it turns into a hand with a pointed finger, but clicking does nothing. The other two buttons, the X button and the "return" button work just fine.

Please help.

Thanks, Alice

I really love the picture-in-picture feature. It made me not use Chrome and switch to Firefox. I've been using the picture-in-picture feature a lot and noticed that the pause button has stopped working. It definitely used to work when I first started using this feature. When I hover my mouse over it, it turns into a hand with a pointed finger, but clicking does nothing. The other two buttons, the X button and the "return" button work just fine. Please help. Thanks, Alice

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cor-el
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If you enable the audio control, does this fail to work as well?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes
  • do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window
alice.huixi.wang
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Thank you for your reply!

The audio control works.

I've started Firefox in Safe Mode and the issue persists.

I've found that if I pause the video using the browser, then use the picture-in-picture feature, then press the "pause" button (which now has a play symbol) on the picture-in-picture, the video advances by a few milliseconds. I've tried holding the "pause" button, but the video still only advances by a few milliseconds before it seems to auto-pause again. Perhaps when the video is running in picture-in-picture, and I press "pause", it actually does pause for a few milliseconds, I just can't notice it. What could cause the video to auto-pause or auto-play?