diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.fullscreen.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.fullscreen.dom.test.tsx
index 07d5b65c..ac0771fa 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.fullscreen.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.fullscreen.dom.test.tsx
@@ -106,39 +106,3 @@ describe("a dialog whose own content goes fullscreen", () => {
     expect(video.closest("body > div")).toBe(host);
   });
 });
-
-describe("Escape while the dialog's own content is fullscreen", () => {
-  const escape = () =>
-    act(() => {
-      window.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keydown", { key: "Escape", bubbles: true }));
-    });
-
-  it("only leaves fullscreen (the browser's part) — the dialog stays open", () => {
-    // The browser spends that Escape on leaving fullscreen and still hands it to the page, with the
-    // video still the fullscreen element: the dialog closed with it, and the viewer lost the player.
-    const onClose = vi.fn();
-    render(
-      <Modal initialFocus="close" title="Player" onClose={onClose}>
-        <video aria-label="film" />
-      </Modal>,
-    );
-    setFullscreen(screen.getByLabelText("film"));
-    escape();
-    expect(onClose).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-  });
-
-  it("still closes a dialog opened over something else that is fullscreen", () => {
-    const stage = document.createElement("div");
-    document.body.appendChild(stage);
-    setFullscreen(stage);
-    const onClose = vi.fn();
-    render(
-      <Modal initialFocus="close" title="Download" onClose={onClose}>
-        <p>form</p>
-      </Modal>,
-    );
-    escape();
-    expect(onClose).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-    stage.remove();
-  });
-});
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.tsx
index 9f65bfec..d3babaf4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ui/Modal.tsx
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { X } from "lucide-react";
 import { useBackToClose } from "../../lib/history";
 import { anyBlockingLayerAbove, pushLayer, removeLayer, takeEscape } from "../../lib/layerStack";
-import { fullscreenElement, useFullscreenPortalHost } from "../../lib/fullscreen";
+import { useFullscreenPortalHost } from "../../lib/fullscreen";
 import { firstFieldIn, focusablesIn, trapTab, useDialogChrome } from "./dialogFocus";
 import { IconButton } from "./IconButton";
 import Toaster from "./Toaster";
@@ -151,11 +151,7 @@ export default function Modal({
     const onKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
       if (takeEscape(e, id)) {
         e.stopPropagation();
-        // The browser spends an Escape on leaving fullscreen and still hands it to the page, the
-        // fullscreen element still set. When that element is the dialog's own content (the library
-        // player's <video>), the Escape was the browser's: closing too lost the viewer the player.
-        const fs = fullscreenElement();
-        if (!(fs && rootRef.current?.contains(fs))) close();
+        close();
         return;
       }
       // Focus trap: keep Tab / Shift+Tab cycling inside the dialog instead of reaching the inert