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Wannan tattunawa ta zama daɗaɗɗiya. Yi sabuwar tambaya idan ka na bukatar taimako.

Cannot comment on Youtube, hotkeys are stuck controlling video instead.

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user3642531
user3642531

When I click to type a comment, the keyboard still has control over video playback (hotkeys) and typing a comment is nearly impossible as it's controlling the video. It's not my keyboard as Youtube on other browsers works as normal, so definitely a Firefox issue.

When I click to type a comment, the keyboard still has control over video playback (hotkeys) and typing a comment is nearly impossible as it's controlling the video. It's not my keyboard as Youtube on other browsers works as normal, so definitely a Firefox issue.

Mafitar da aka zaɓa

Hi

Thank you for flagging up this issue.

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

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cor-el
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 doesn't 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.

Paul
Paul
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Zaɓi Mafita

Hi

Thank you for flagging up this issue.

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

user3642531
user3642531 Mai mallakar tambaya

Thank you. The issue has been resolved.