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Youtube Space Bar issue

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When I am searching for videos on YouTube, I cannot use the space bar. For instance if I search "Charlie bit my finger" it would enter "Charliebitmyfinger" in the search bar because the space is not working. It will work to pause videos however. I also notice that sometimes when I type "k" it will also start and stop the video. I tried not allowing youtube.com permissions to override my keyboard, but that did nothing. I was still able to pause videos using space bar or 'k'. Any suggestions?

When I am searching for videos on YouTube, I cannot use the space bar. For instance if I search "Charlie bit my finger" it would enter "Charliebitmyfinger" in the search bar because the space is not working. It will work to pause videos however. I also notice that sometimes when I type "k" it will also start and stop the video. I tried not allowing youtube.com permissions to override my keyboard, but that did nothing. I was still able to pause videos using space bar or 'k'. Any suggestions?

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Hi

Thank you for flagging up this issue.

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

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Can you send me the issue reported to Google?

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YouTube has fixed this issue and you should no longer experience it. You may have to reload and bypass the cache.


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

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