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html5 player directional keys rebind

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when pressing the left or right arrows keys, the video is skipped like 5s or whatever. iIs there a way to change that amount?

when pressing the left or right arrows keys, the video is skipped like 5s or whatever. iIs there a way to change that amount?

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It is not customizable but you can skip 10% by holding down Ctrl along with the left/right arrow keys.

Video player keyboard shortcuts.

You can make feature requests at connect.mozilla.org.

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Hmm, gotcha. Side question, when i do ctrl+left, it sends me back to the start of the video? Any idea why? Cant think of any extension that does that.

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It will start from the beginning if the current playback position is within 10% from the start or if you press and hold the key combo. A custom video player may behave differently, try testing with Picture-in-Picture (Ctrl+Shift+]).

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well, i wasnt within 10%.. I also dont use a custom player, whatever that means.

I asked the all-knowing oracle of chatgpt and it said this is standard behavior and the seek 10% is a firefox control scheme, which leads me to believe its not working. Why would that be. Is there something i need to enable in about:config maybe. On chrome, ctrl+left is doing like a 1 or 2s seek, which is what im looking for.

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Ctrl+left/right seeks 10% for me in the vanilla html5 player and Picture-in-Picture player on Ubuntu. Can you share a video link that does not behave this way?