I’m unsure whether this is more appropriate here or in GQ, since it is sort of a technical question with (I hope) a factual answer. However, the main reason I end up watching YouTube is by following links that you guys in CS post. So in a sense my problem is all your fault, I hope you realize that.*
Anyway. Sometime in the last couple days I did something, or something was done, that affected the way that my machine views YouTube. You know when you go to a clip, that little box in the lower right-hand corner of the viewing screen that enlarges the view when you click on it? That thing is messed up, or at least is working differently than it used to, and I want it to go back to the way it was before, but I can’t figure out how.
WHAT USED TO HAPPEN: When I clicked that button, the ‘smaller’ playback would freeze, a larger browser window would open up, and the video would load into that window instead. I could move that window aside or minimize it to do other stuff online, while still watching/listening to the clip. When I closed that window, the ‘smaller’ screen on the original page was still frozen at the point where I opened the larger screen.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW: The entire computer screen is filled with the enlarged version, even obscuring the Windows toolbar. There is also a caption that reads “Press ESC to exit full screen mode,” but this is a lie, because pressing the ESC key does jack-all. Pressing ESC + CTRL seems to work though. (There’s a teeny “close” box in the corner of the fullscreen that does the exact same thing, so I don’t even know why they bothered to lie to me about the ESC key in the first place.) The small screen doesn’t freeze anymore when the fullscreen version plays either.
I hope the above makes some sense. Clarifications upon request, if possible with my limited vocabulary. Now, it may be that this ‘new glitch’ is the way that YouTube is actually supposed to work in the first place, and I accidentally fixed it rather than messed it up. But I don’t care, I’m used to the other way now, dangit. Plus I can’t move the fullscreen version around anymore! I’m irked.
*Actually it was a tossup between CS and MPSIMS, but as you can see, this post has nothing to do with cats. Although I wouldn’t put it past the ferrets to have somehow caused this with their damnable keyboard-hopping…