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Youtube - Shortcuts activated even when no video is playing

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kalamarano
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Hello everyone

This issue started today 10/March/2021 and only on Firefox. I have tested this into 4 different computers and it only occours on Firefox, other browsers are fine.

As I try to perform any search on Youtube searchbar, spacebar wont work. It acts like it is pausing/unpausing a video, and does not "space" the words. In fact, all Youtube shortcuts seems to be "live" even when a video is not playing

Any other site its working fine.

Anyone got any ideia on how to solve this issue?

Thank you

Hello everyone This issue started today 10/March/2021 and only on Firefox. I have tested this into 4 different computers and it only occours on Firefox, other browsers are fine. As I try to perform any search on Youtube searchbar, spacebar wont work. It acts like it is pausing/unpausing a video, and does not "space" the words. In fact, all Youtube shortcuts seems to be "live" even when a video is not playing Any other site its working fine. Anyone got any ideia on how to solve this issue? Thank you

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Yes, Reddit also is flooded with posts on this problem. (for example) Probably Google changed something and it's better to wait for a fix than to try to hack around it.

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shacou
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They probably did some sort of update that broke the Youtube UI. I've uploaded 2 short videos as hard evidence, hopefully it gets resolved soon. Having to ctrl+c and ctrl+v is tedious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEG1wvHwYXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqjnX0vJSjU

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Yes, Reddit also is flooded with posts on this problem. (for example) Probably Google changed something and it's better to wait for a fix than to try to hack around it.

Danas
Danas
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Same problem here - even worse - you cannot type comments too, because Firefox sees every letter as a Youtube shortcut, and instead of typing text it just invokes those shortcuts. I hope they will fix this soon. Will have to use Chrome for the moment.

Paul
Paul
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Hi

Thank you for flagging up this issue.

YouTube have looked into this and will be correcting the issue shortly.