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keyboard error on youtube

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ravanza.wijaya
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i watch youtube on firefox. when i type on search bar, i cant use space. it directly pause the video even im stil typing.

and when im in youtube home, same thing happen. i cant use space

whats the problem?


it only in firefox, it work fine in google

i watch youtube on firefox. when i type on search bar, i cant use space. it directly pause the video even im stil typing. and when im in youtube home, same thing happen. i cant use space whats the problem? it only in firefox, it work fine in google

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cor-el
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There have been quite a few reports about this YouTube issue recently.

Looks like a YouTube bug where JavaScript always interprets a space bar and other characters as control keys and do not disable this action when an input field has focus.

See also:

A possible workaround for now is to write text or affected characters elsewhere (e.g. in the location bar) and paste the clipboard content in the search bar or comment field.

There are some bug reports about this issue filed, all duped to this bug where you can keep an eye on.

  • Bug 1697551 - Unable to type spaces and other characters (f, m) into YouTube search bar

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)

Modified by cor-el

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.