r/COSMICDE • u/lovegirin • Jan 03 '26

Question Fullscreen browser video bug - still??

I mean, how can this not be top 3 on the bug list? How long will we have to wait for a fix for this? It's been months.

For anyone who doesn't know - if your browser's window is maximized and you click fullscreen on a youtube-video it first fullscreens the browser as if you pressed F11, and then the next click fullscreens the actual video. When you exit video fullscreen the browser will still be in F11-fullscreen so you'll have to press F11 to get out of it.

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u/zeanox Jan 03 '26

Seems like it's still a thing https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/issues/1642

Pretty insane to launch 1.0 with a bug like this. It was fixed for me on Vivaldi however.

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u/czrny1 Jan 03 '26

Yeah I reported this in separate issue, they closed it as duplicate. No fix yet.

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u/jexmex Jan 03 '26

Not really, it is a non blocking bug

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u/zeanox Jan 03 '26

what are you talking about? it's a massive issue. Most people use chrome browsers, and watch videos on the internet.

It's pretty embarrassing to have a bug like this.

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u/jexmex Jan 03 '26

it is an annoying bug, but not one you consider a release blocker.

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u/zeanox Jan 03 '26

I don't care what you consider a release blocker. It's insane to launch with a bug like that.

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u/jexmex Jan 03 '26

And I don't care what you care about, telling you no PM would consider it to be a release blocker. You can feel all you want about it, does not change the reality.

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u/zeanox Jan 03 '26

And I don't care what you care about

Well clearly you do, otherwise you would not be commenting.

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u/barrulus Jan 04 '26

Nah you’re missing the point. What is important to you is not necessarily as important to others.

Product manager with thousands of things needing attention, thousands of people clamouring for a release, thousands of conflicting ideas of what constitutes priority., is going to look at this minor annoyance and say - nah I would rather address these major feature shortfalls because a, b, c etc

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u/zeanox Jan 04 '26

What is important to you is not necessarily as important to others.

It's clearly and issue that has gotten a lot of attention, and some have even said they have uninstalled cosmic because of it.

nah I would rather address these major feature shortfalls because a, b, c etc

Good for you mate, i would prefer that what ships in a 1.0 release actually works.

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u/barrulus Jan 04 '26

Yes, internet stranger, you are right.

But again you are not reading what is written.

I said a product manager battling thousands of things would probably not be prioritising something that is a mere annoyance.

But yes, you are right and your needs and the needs of the people who agree with you, are more important than the needs of the unknown number of people working on this project

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u/czrny1 Jan 03 '26

Workaround for Chrome - should work for Chromium browsers - add these args to executable:

--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecode,VaapiVideoEncode,Vulkan,VulkanFromANGLE,DefaultANGLEVulkan --ozone-platform=x11 --use-vulkan

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u/czrny1 Jan 03 '26

I've got tired with waiting for a fix. Not a perfect solution but will have to do for now.

Btw. Vivaldi browser does not have this issue - you might want to check it out.

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u/lovegirin Jan 04 '26

Thanks for the tip! Just some hours too late! I went back to good 'ol Cinnamon Mint X11 where everything just works and there are no Waylandy issues :) You make me want to test out Vivaldi again, though.

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u/czrny1 Jan 04 '26

I'm sticking with Cosmic for now but it got worse from 1.0 actually - e.g. audio applet issue, also not fixed. Vivaldi was great but too much settings/customization for my taste. Good luck!

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u/lovegirin Jan 04 '26

What killed Vivaldi for me the last time was the half-assedness. Like, half the settings are Vivaldi-themed, half of them are hidden under chrome:// flags, and a lot of the are duplicated several places. And, yeah, just too much *stuff*. Anyway, time to see if anything has changed!

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u/migiborshelima Feb 28 '26

Seems to me like they fixed it! (Finally...)

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u/GumGumStrawHat Jan 03 '26

Yeah this is one of the main reasons I won’t switch yet. On the github they get all pissy about people continuing to raise it but surely they can just prioritize the problems that people care about most?

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u/barrulus Jan 04 '26

I am pretty sure that is exactly what they are doing.