Can we talk about the Chrome video and music player regression? It's a horrible decrease in user experience while gaining only very, very, very marginal "visual" wins.
Please bring back the old media player!
Please bring back the old media player!
Isn't that an accurate summary of Google design in the past ~5 years? What revoltong incompetence.
Perfect position to cover subtitles of the full-screen movie you're watching. On more than one occasion, I've had to rewind the video to catch a critical subtitled word because I made the mistake of making a minor volume adjustment at the wrong time.
You can turn off the block entirely from the terminal, but then you lose the indication of where you are in the volume continuum.
And they took away the +/- 15 seconds buttons, which are much much better for skipping around long videos than the scrubber is.
Mystery meat navigation is probably the worst paradigm in all of us. Even icons with stupid, but distinguishable icons is better.
But if you:
1) go to shitty-fullscreen
2) hit picture-in-picture
3) go back to fullscreen
4) close fullscreen back to normal view
5) pinch-outward to zoom
Dear Googlers reading this: you may be tempted to go out of your way to fuck it up further and remove this workaround. Pretty please don't? Thanks.
Although the mobile version is unconscionably awful, I almost always have to guess at what the controls do and avoid opening the app.
I think the reason they do this is because the standard media player allows for picture in picture and background playback.