I noticed this earlier, and I'm not the only one, I've asked around and people have tried using it in the search bar on Firefox and it just doesn't work.
Ask HN: Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?
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#2No
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#3Three users submitted that to HN in the last 15 minutes, seems to be tracked at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1697551
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#4On macOS 10.15.7 (19H114):
- Chrome: Yes (89.0.4389.72 (Official Build) beta (x86_64))
- Safari: No (14.0.2 (15610.3.7.1.10, 15610))
- Firefox: No (86.0 (64-bit))
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#5It's working for me. Firefox 78 on Debian
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#6It works in the search bar
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#7Nope
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#8No.
Version 86 on Windows.
Also space to toggle pausing during playback has worked only intermittently for some time. Always solid in Chrome. I think it depends what's focused, but never figured out the details.
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#9I noticed this this AM and assumed it was something around Firefox or otherwise specific to me. The situation for me was not being able to create a new playlist when saving a video because it would trigger all of the keyboard shortcuts while typing. It would mostly work...until you get to a letter like "f" and fullscreen blows away the modal.
This is a bit of a cautionary tale around the dangers of hijacking "normal" behavior: when a bug happens, you break really, really basic things.
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#10No, it's broken! Firefox 87 beta on Debian