Is Your Spacebar Working on YouTube?
I noticed this earlier, and I'm not the only one, I've asked around and people have tried using it in the search bar on Firefox and it just doesn't work.
Space bar is hilarious for me on YouTube/Firefox. Some times it gets into a certain focus state (play button focussed?) and hitting space bar will briefly pause it, then resume playback. Hilarity ensues as I scramble, pausing a few times to realize the issue, and change the focus to something else by clicking the video canvas then press spacebar again for success.
I noticed this this AM and assumed it was something around Firefox or otherwise specific to me. The situation for me was not being able to create a new playlist when saving a video because it would trigger all of the keyboard shortcuts while typing. It would mostly work...until you get to a letter like "f" and fullscreen blows away the modal.
This is a bit of a cautionary tale around the dangers of hijacking "normal" behavior: when a bug happens, you break really, really basic things.
It is fascinating that people file this as bug to firefox bugzilla when it is clearly bug on youtube side
I use k instead of the space bar for a long time.
Google are so clumsy accidentally leaving in these hard to find bugs throughout their products eh?
I guess the only solution is for us all to switch to Chrome, everything works fine that way.
This isn't the first time I've encountered this bug before—I've seen it while using LinkedIn's messenger as well.
No.
Version 86 on Windows.
Also space to toggle pausing during playback has worked only intermittently for some time. Always solid in Chrome. I think it depends what's focused, but never figured out the details.
Reading the headline I was afraid YouTube started disabling the Spacebar for play/pause because of some vague UX reason. But it's the other way around.
I can not enter space in the search widget on
- MacOS/Firefox
- Ubuntu/Firefox
I can enter space in the search widget on
- Ubuntu/Chrome
- Ubuntu/Brave
- Ubuntu/Opera
- Ubuntu/Vivaldi
Open the developer tools, disable the caching in the network tab and reload. at least here now the spacebar is working again.
On macOS 10.15.7 (19H114):
- Chrome: Yes (89.0.4389.72 (Official Build) beta (x86_64))
- Safari: No (14.0.2 (15610.3.7.1.10, 15610))
- Firefox: No (86.0 (64-bit))
How about is your cursor working on Google search or was that "optimized"?
Nope. Can’t use space in search.
Safari on Mac.
Broken AF. Was about to restart my computer.
It’s hilarious that something so simple can break.
Broken, it did work yesterday and haven't updated Firefox.
Maybe, but I don't have the problem (Linux, FF, wayland).
No. But Alt 32 will give the space (Win 10 Firefox)
No, it's broken! Firefox 87 beta on Debian
It's working for me. Firefox 78 on Debian
It works in the search bar
Firefox 86, Kubuntu 18.04.
It works.
Ah!