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Looks like the second bug just changes the preference to enable the Full Screen API by default. However, I didn't know anything about that preference, so it's news to me.

Just tried it on YouTube and I'm glad to see it's working. Going back to the in-page view doesn't seem to be working so well, yet.

The full-screen API is for web pages to show content in a full screen window (like a custom video player, or <canvas> game), viewing <video> tags as full screen is different and has been in Firefox since the start.

The full-screen API is for web pages to show content in a full screen window (like a custom video player, or <canvas> game), viewing <video> tags as full screen is different and has been in Firefox since the start.

Previously, from my experience, going fullscreen watching a HTML 5 video just maximized the video in the content area and you could still see the chrome. To get true fullscreen I had to also change the browser to full screen view (F11).

When I enabled the full screen API it went to a true full screen as soon as I clicked the full screen button without needing to also hit F11.

I figured the API would apply to other things, but that full screen YouTube pet peeve made me wonder if it made a difference there and it did.

Edit: Just toggled full screen API off again just to be sure and it went back to just "in-content" full screen. I'm guessing YouTube supports the API along with html5 video.

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why did they make their icons white in Fx8.0?

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Yeah, I noticed this too, with the Tab Groups/Panorama button. It seems to only happen with buttons that are placed on the tab bar.

Also, is it just me or are the tab reordering animations not working? Do I have to go into about:config and change some setting?

How do I set it so Firefox always automatically downloads .avi files without me having to click save each time? I see the check box that says Do this automatically for files like this from now on, but it's grayed out. Can it be done?

I think that option is only working for opening stuff not downloading it.If you always want to automatically open a .doc file in word instead of getting a dialog window of what to do with the file you can use that setting and the file will be downloaded in temp folder and opened with the chosen program(can be changed in Applications tab in FF options).

Hmm bummer. So from that link, it sounds like they chose not to do it because it broke too many addons? Well if that's the case they would never be able to update FF/add new features, because it's inevitable some addon out there is going to be broken by them.

It wasn't just addons, it broke a whole bunch of things (couldn't drag tabs to make bookmarks, behaved badly on slower systems, etc.)

The extent of the addon breakage was just "We didn't give them much time", by itself breaking some addons isn't a deal breaker.

Is the latest build of aurora still 9.0a2? Or is it on 10 yet?

I don't see it yet, but the switch should be happening any day now. I want to switch to Firefox 9 Beta myself. Keep checking this site. It should change soon. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/

will this be in firefox 9, 10 or 11?

FF10, if not wrong, try to find

full-screen-api.enabled

This in FF9 and turn it ON, it will surely be buggy but at least something useful. Never tested myself.

Where can you download it? I assume off of the FTP, but I need a direct link. I'm looking for 9 Beta, which I would assume is on there as well. Thanks!

Here's where I got the latest aurora10a2 build from

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/

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