Full screen video playback issue

I'm using a dual monitor setup and watch a lot of live video streams on the secondary while running other programs. When the video is playing full screen I can normally click around in other windows/programs without the video switching to windowed mode. The problem is that when running Windows Media Player (12) or Pandora in the background (and sometimes seemingly random other cases), as soon as I click outside the video screen, it switches to windowed mode out of full screen. Is there a way to tell FF to keep video running full screen in the background? I don't have this problem with IE9 or Chrome, but I prefer Firefox to either of those, and solving this little issue would seal the deal.

To follow up on this, this still doesn't work, and the people at the apple genius bar told me that sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. There's nothing I can do about it. To me, this is a bs answer and really means... we have no idea why it doesn't work.
Also, I have been having a lot of problems with my ndivia video card, and wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the problem.

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