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How do I stop flash from hijacking the keyboard?

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Eamon123
Eamon123
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It's pretty annoying that I can't navigate the page while watching an embedded YouTube video, there must be an add-on or a setting to change.

It's pretty annoying that I can't navigate the page while watching an embedded YouTube video, there must be an add-on or a setting to change.

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Gingerbread Man
Gingerbread Man
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When the Flash plug-in is running, it steals focus from Firefox. To return focus to Firefox, click an empty area of the web page. At that point, the usual keyboard shortcuts should work again.

The developers are aware of this issue.

Eamon123
Eamon123 Question owner
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But then I have to use the mouse.