[Bug 434476]

[Ehsan-mozilla]

(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to :Ehsan Akhgari (needinfo? me!) (slow responsiveness,
> emailacopolypse) from comment #29)
> > (In reply to comment #28)
> > > We should disable the screen save for non-fullscreen playback too.
> > 
> > Why?  Some websites use <video> as an element in their design these days
> > (for example, as the page background.)  It seems counter intuitive for such
> > a website to disable the screen saver!
> 
> Because sometimes you want to watch a video non-fullscreen with duration longer
> than your screensaver's timeout? I certainly don't fullscreen all the videos I
> watch.
> 
> I think it would be hard to programmatically distinguish between the non
> fullscreen foreground case and all permutations of the video-as-page-background
> use case you describe.

Can we at least do that for videos which have started playback as a
result of a user action?

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Title:
  screensaver starts while playing HTML5 videos

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