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I looked for a way to disable the media keys feature when it landed in Developer Edition and it seems to be only in about:config. The key is "media.hardwaremedi

by skymt 6y ago

I looked for a way to disable the media keys feature when it landed in Developer Edition and it seems to be only in about:config. The key is "media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled".

TonyTrapp 6y ago
Oh well. I guess "having an actual media player that observes to media keys" is "very advanced PC usage" in the year 2020, so that fully justifies hiding it in about:config. Sad.
- bickeringyokel 6y ago
  I'm starting to think that the concept of "files" is starting to be a very advanced concept for some people these days.
- Dahoon 6y ago
  If the OS is worth its salt it knows which media player is playing and lets you control it. I don't see how this could ever be a problem. It is no different than having two mediaplayers installed. I have never seen the wrong mediaplayer suddenly being controlled. Just set whatever as standard/default. Works fine in Android, Linux and Windows.
  - the_pwner224 6y ago
    On Android you can't (almost always) play multiple media at the same time, so that's not an issue. The first media will pause when you start the next. However this is a stupid limitation, only plausibly appropriate for phones. On computers you frequently have multiple medias playing at the same time and it is not possible to control all of them with one set of media control keys. The OS can guess but will often get it wrong. You have music playing in the background and you start a YouTube video and then hit pause. What gets paused? On my current system, it's (usually) the YT video in Firefox. This is wrong because I want to pause the background music so that I can listen to the video. On another system it might instead pause the background music. That is wrong because I wanted to pause/unpause the active YT video that I've been watching for the past 15 minutes. I ended up disabling Firefox's thingy in about:config because this gets pretty frustrating after a while.

by skymt 6y ago

I looked for a way to disable the media keys feature when it landed in Developer Edition and it seems to be only in about:config. The key is "media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled".

TonyTrapp 6y ago

Oh well. I guess "having an actual media player that observes to media keys" is "very advanced PC usage" in the year 2020, so that fully justifies hiding it in about:config. Sad.

bickeringyokel 6y ago
I'm starting to think that the concept of "files" is starting to be a very advanced concept for some people these days.
Dahoon 6y ago
If the OS is worth its salt it knows which media player is playing and lets you control it. I don't see how this could ever be a problem. It is no different than having two mediaplayers installed. I have never seen the wrong mediaplayer suddenly being controlled. Just set whatever as standard/default. Works fine in Android, Linux and Windows.
- the_pwner224 6y ago
  On Android you can't (almost always) play multiple media at the same time, so that's not an issue. The first media will pause when you start the next. However this is a stupid limitation, only plausibly appropriate for phones. On computers you frequently have multiple medias playing at the same time and it is not possible to control all of them with one set of media control keys. The OS can guess but will often get it wrong. You have music playing in the background and you start a YouTube video and then hit pause. What gets paused? On my current system, it's (usually) the YT video in Firefox. This is wrong because I want to pause the background music so that I can listen to the video. On another system it might instead pause the background music. That is wrong because I wanted to pause/unpause the active YT video that I've been watching for the past 15 minutes. I ended up disabling Firefox's thingy in about:config because this gets pretty frustrating after a while.