Youtube shortcuts on firefox
Tonight I noticed something really weird when I tried to reply to a comment on Youtube. Initially, I tried to reply from the bell button in the notifications and soon I realized that the Spacebar was not working. I thought it might be stuck, but it was not, since it was working fine in both the address bar and the search bar. Asynchronous keys function was disabled. Then, I went to the video and tried to reply from there. Guess what! The video was being resized using the shortcuts depending on what I was typing! For example "t" changes between normal and theater mode and "i" makes it picture-in-picture. What is going on? I am sure no key is locked, i even restarted my pc and the same thing kept happening. Then, I turned it off and on and the problem was persisting. Everything works fine on other applications, just YT seems broken for some reason. I tried to type on YouTube on two other browsers and everything worked fine. I don't think it has anything to do with the windows update, since it only happens on firefox, which I don't intend to change. Is there any setting to lock/toggle the Youtube shortcuts on and off? Sorry for the length of my description and thanks a lot in advance!
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Hi
Thank you for flagging up this issue.
YouTube have looked into this and will be correcting the issue shortly.
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Hi
Thank you for flagging up this issue.
YouTube have looked into this and will be correcting the issue shortly.
Thank you very much for the reply, at least I am relieved that it's not a firefox problem! So, if you don't mind me asking and if you are aware of course, is this a new YT issue or happened recently?
YouTube has fixed this issue and you should no longer experience it. You may have to reload and bypass the cache.
cor-el said
YouTube has fixed this issue and you should no longer experience it. You may have to reload and bypass the cache.
Thanks for the reply! I don't have a pc near me right now, will check again later. Reload and bypass the cache, aka Ctrl-F5?
Reload and bypass the cache, aka Ctrl-F5?
Yes.