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Why does FF for Android get stuck in horizontal mode after playing a YouTube video?

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Baldape
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Whenever I play a video in full screen on YouTube Firefox puts my phone in horizontal mode and if I let the video play till the end it gets stuck in horizontal mode.

Whenever I play a video in full screen on YouTube Firefox puts my phone in horizontal mode and if I let the video play till the end it gets stuck in horizontal mode.

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You can disable this "feature" using about:config. Find the entry media.videocontrols.lock-video-orientation and toggle its value to false.

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rbrtryn
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You can disable this "feature" using about:config. Find the entry media.videocontrols.lock-video-orientation and toggle its value to false.

Baldape
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rbrtryn said

You can disable this "feature" using about:config. Find the entry media.videocontrols.lock-video-orientation and toggle its value to false.

Thanks that solved my issue.