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Space bar does not work on YouTube search at the moment

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

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

elaus wrote: post #14

I wonder if Youtube doesn't run CI tests against other browsers than Chrome or if those test cases just aren't covered. According to an analysis in the Firefox bugtracker ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1697551 ) it seems like the error occured because a non-standard attribute is used in the JS code that only Chromium implements. Looks like the changes are being rolled back though. Geniunely happy to s…

> I wonder if Youtube doesn't run CI tests against other browsers than Chrome

They have a strong financial incentive to break functionality in browsers that aren't theirs. Why would they ever care to test?

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

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Post by blondin »

works here (chrome/mac).

but since we are on the topic, i totally understand OP posting on reddit. i have given up giving feedback to big tech websites and apps. i don't know where to enter that feedback, and when i do, i am not sure they value any of it.

nowadays, one has to take it to the socials.

and since it has come to sharing our miseries on the socials in order to be heard: if anyone, by any chance, from amazon is reading this, sorting wish lists has been broken for many weeks now.

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

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Post by Gibbon1 »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #21
elaus wrote: post #14

I wonder if Youtube doesn't run CI tests against other browsers than Chrome or if those test cases just aren't covered. According to an analysis in the Firefox bugtracker ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1697551 ) it seems like the error occured because a non-standard attribute is used in the JS code that only Chromium implements. Looks like the changes are being rolled back though. Geniunely happy to s…

> I wonder if Youtube doesn't run CI tests against other browsers than Chrome They have a strong financial incentive to break functionality in browsers that aren't theirs. Why would they ever care to test?

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.

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

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Post by sircastor »

I ran into this this morning and I’m floored that it’s not just me.

I like JavaScript, I develop in it daily. This is too much. Your JavaScript shouldn’t be messing with a field so intensely that it disrupts usage like this.

Also, how did this slip past internal automated tests? How did it slip past manual tests?

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

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Post by sircastor »

jb1991 wrote: post #12

This has been bugging me about Disney+ ever since I subscribed to it. Unlike Youtube or Netflix, the space bar has no effect when streaming on a computer, which is just bonkers.

This particular problem is that the space bar does not actually print the space character in the search field.

But that space to play/pause not working in Disney+ drives me crazy

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

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Post by SpelingBeeChamp »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #21
elaus wrote: post #14

I wonder if Youtube doesn't run CI tests against other browsers than Chrome or if those test cases just aren't covered. According to an analysis in the Firefox bugtracker ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1697551 ) it seems like the error occured because a non-standard attribute is used in the JS code that only Chromium implements. Looks like the changes are being rolled back though. Geniunely happy to s…

> I wonder if Youtube doesn't run CI tests against other browsers than Chrome They have a strong financial incentive to break functionality in browsers that aren't theirs. Why would they ever care to test?

Not really. They have a strong financial interest to have as many eyeballs as possible watching YouTube, because only then can they show ads.

I don't see how breaking YouTube for a portion of the world population is a sensible part of that plan.

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

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Post by imacoder »

imacoder wrote: post #4
chmod775 wrote: post #3

You can't even put a space into the search box.

But can you put a search box in space?

Wow, HN is full of assholes!

But, why you ask? Because I made a funny joke based on comment that is inaccurate? Testing Youtube with a space in the search box yielded expected results, a space was entered.

Yet, I receive 4 downvotes for no reason, other than someone has them to use. Which makes this fucking place an echo chamber full of assholes.

Now you have a reason to downvote me!

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