When youtube is not my active tab, the video plays in the upper left corner of my screen.

When I attempt to view a video on youtube, it takes several seconds to buffer. Leaving the video to run in the background I navigate to other tabs I have open and while the video buffers, nothing happens. When the video actually starts to play in the tab in the background, the video begins to play in the upper corner of my screen. The video does not to appear to be distorted at all, it's simply shifted from its location in the background tab to the upper left corner of my screen.

Press F10 or press and hold the Alt key down to bring up the "Menu Bar" temporarily.
* New Old Menu: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-old-menu/
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