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How can you escape a KeyTrap without a Mouse?

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Whenever I am on a website that has a flash or Java object in it such as YouTube or a game site, whenever the object is activated it traps the keyboard input and access to the Browser's shortcuts etc are unavailable.

As an example in Ctrl + T opens a new Tab. If you open a YouTube page showing a video and then click the YouTube player so that it takes the keyboard inputs, when you press Ctrl + T it doesn't work anymore. The Flash object is trapping the input. No amount of pressing Tab etc works to escape the input trap.

How do you escape this key-trap WITHOUT using the mouse? This is a question of accessibility; you should be able to escape the key-trap and return key-focus to the browser itself. I do not want to be told to terminate the process I want to know how to escape the key-trap. PC Emulators etc usually have 'Host Keys' a key that returns the key focus to the Host OS. Does Firefox have a Host Key or a shortcut to return key focus to the browser itself and escape the object?

Whenever I am on a website that has a flash or Java object in it such as YouTube or a game site, whenever the object is activated it traps the keyboard input and access to the Browser's shortcuts etc are unavailable. As an example in Ctrl + T opens a new Tab. If you open a YouTube page showing a video and then click the YouTube player so that it takes the keyboard inputs, when you press Ctrl + T it doesn't work anymore. The Flash object is trapping the input. No amount of pressing Tab etc works to escape the input trap. How do you escape this key-trap WITHOUT using the mouse? This is a question of accessibility; you should be able to escape the key-trap and return key-focus to the browser itself. I do not want to be told to terminate the process I want to know how to escape the key-trap. PC Emulators etc usually have 'Host Keys' a key that returns the key focus to the Host OS. Does Firefox have a Host Key or a shortcut to return key focus to the browser itself and escape the object?