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Re: Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment

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Post by zokier »

yifanl wrote: post #35
zokier wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> > "I'm all for 'don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence' but I don't believe Google is that incompetent. I think they were running out the clock. We lost users during every oops. I see the third option here besides malice and incompetence: indifference. I don't think they really aiming to eradicate Firefox, the last few % of users do not matter that much. But they certainly do seem to be ind…

Selective indifference is malice.

Malice implies intent.

Re: Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment

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Post by eitland »

jhasse wrote: post #37
Gibbon1 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making the web buggy on firefox means we're in the extinguish phase for alternate web engines. Soon there will only be chrome based browsers. And then once that happens, they'll make it harder and harder to build alternative browsers around chrome.

Microsoft will fork Chromium in that case.

Maybe, but it wouldn't help much: They too would be happy to get rid of ad blockers.

Re: Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment

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Post by jml7c5 »

mkl wrote: post #38
chrismorgan wrote: post #34

A closely-related issue: Space has long been partially broken in YouTube: if a button is focused, then Space toggles the play state and lets that button activate (the browser default behaviour). This is probably most frustrating if you clicked on the play/pause button with your mouse, so that it’s focused: now pressing Space will pause and immediately resume (or resume and immediately pause again). So I got used to u…

There's another long-standing YouTube space bug too: space doesn't scroll down when the page itself has the focus, like it does on every other web page. It just plays/pauses the video, even if you're way down in the comments.

I would suspect this is intended behavior. YouTube expects users to rely on page up/page down or mouse/trackpad scroll.

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Post by lupire »

arkitaip wrote: post #15
Kelamir wrote: post #13

Same for me on Firefox. Bizzare.

I had to ctrl+v space to write a comment but halfway through I realized that writing a comment on Youtube simply wasn't worth the armada of ctrl+v.

You could draft the comment outside of YouTube

Re: Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment

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Post by brokenmachine »

mkl wrote: post #38
chrismorgan wrote: post #34

A closely-related issue: Space has long been partially broken in YouTube: if a button is focused, then Space toggles the play state and lets that button activate (the browser default behaviour). This is probably most frustrating if you clicked on the play/pause button with your mouse, so that it’s focused: now pressing Space will pause and immediately resume (or resume and immediately pause again). So I got used to u…

There's another long-standing YouTube space bug too: space doesn't scroll down when the page itself has the focus, like it does on every other web page. It just plays/pauses the video, even if you're way down in the comments.

The thing I don't like is if you click on a timestamp in the comments, it zooms you up to the video, so you lose where you were up to in the comments.

I wonder if there's any way to get it to not do that, even on a one-time basis? If I want to go back to the top, I'll press the Home key, thank you very much.

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