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YouTube controls not disappearing in full screen
When a video in YouTube goes full screen the controls don't always disappear after the timeout, but go semi-transparent instead (see screenshot). The transparency seems to be different every time, but generally low. It seems like the fade out animation just doesn't finish. It is extremely annoying.
They only reliable way to make them go away is to click the Full Screen button in the lower right corner of the video. Then the video goes full screen without the controls, therefore no timeout, therefore no fade out animation.
Checked Chrome, but does not have the same behavior.
This is the Dev version.
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- press F11, it's supposed to put chrome into fullscreen (or that's what it said at least) but never worked, figured it was a bug. I used the bug to destroy the bug lol
Disabling hardware acceleration solves the problem for me too, but I guess it is better for it to get fixed, rather than us giving up on hardware acceleration.
VladislavKosev Disabling hardware acceleration fixed it for me on both chrome and edge.
- I have the same problem too !
arthursobased Hi, don't know if you still have the problem but mine was fixed by going into settings on chrome, then go into Advanced settings and find use hardware acceleration when available and turn it off.
VladislavKosev Deleting cookies and resetting Youtube site settings on Chrome Version 75.0.3770.100 solved same problem for me.
VladislavKosev I'm having the same problem. It started happening a few days ago, and I can't figure out why. Very frustrating. Please let us know if you find an answer.
VladislavKosev thank you for alerting us to this issue. I have added your comments to the bug that we have tracking this issue.
- Another observation - alt-tabbing out and then in the full-screened player removes the nearly transparent overlays if the mouse is out of the screen. If mouse is IN the screen, then they become fully visible.
VladislavKosev I'm having the same problem. Have you found a solution?
Elliot Kirk I have to add that sometimes it doesn't happen the first or second time you go full screen or play/pause while in full screen, but once it gets bugged, it stays bugged even if you refresh the page.
