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Today in Youtube... Spacebar key (and other keys) doesn't work on Youtube (Firefox/Safari).

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kyo2004

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So... I was searching on youtube today but something weird ocurred. Typing the spacebar in the search box doesn't register anything (basically can't separate words... xD)... moreover, if you had a video playing it, every time you type the spacebar in the search bar (or another key that has function in Youtube) instead of just only type, the function associated is triggered.

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This is currently affecting Firefox and Safari users, Chrome users doesn't have the problem... but... great job YT... :/
 
killerrin

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Knowing Google this was an intentional change because they wanted to implement some obscure web standard that wasn't yet officially approved
 
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B'z-chan

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Of course it doesn't affect Chrome users. These choices Google are forcing across their products are getting super annoying.
 
Reym

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Interesting. Still works for me in Firefox, OP. Maybe this is regional?

Edit: Also opened Edge and tried it there. Worked there too. Just because it's the only other browser I have so I thought I'd check.
 
cinch

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omg lol i was just having this issue on Youtube and thought i'd have to get a new keyboard, then went to google and it was fine, wtf (have Firefox btw)
 
Akai

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I was so confused by this moments ago. Can't actually seperate words in the search box. lol
 
Faddy

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Broken for me on Firefox.

Google will be doing some ridiculous A:B testing and broke something just for lols. Sometimes I think it is a badge of honour for Googlers if they can push out changes that break in other browsers.
 
hjort

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Firefox user here. My spacebar works in a regular tab, but it doesn't work in a private tab.
 
NCR Ranger

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Doesn't work for me on Firefox 86. Like what the fuck. That seems something that should have been easily caught in some kind of testing.
 
giancarlo123x

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Probably just a bug
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No, it's on purpose!
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julia crawford

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It's eating the spaces. You can type the space, and it will search with the space, but it won't show it on the input. You can test this by breaking a normal word with a space, and you'll get the usual suggestions to search with the fixed word.

Something is catching focus and the spacebar
 
DorkLord54

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Spacebar works for me, but the keyboard shortcuts now aren't turned off on the search bar so I can't watch a vid while using it.
 
julia crawford

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Also lmao at this working fine on Chrome.

Someone at Google doesn't do QA on other browsers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
vatstep

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Haha, this is happening to me on Safari. I did a Twitter search but didn't see anything. I just typed out what I needed to search for in a text file and pasted it into YT for now.
 

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Yeah, happened to me too. Firefox Ubuntu. For a moment I thought my keyboard space key wasn't working.
 
TarpitCarnivore

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The fact that this hasn't been fixed yet is pretty astounding. Two hours and no one has identified or hit this bug yet?
 
SpoonyBob

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Loaded up a video and typed into the search bar.

Space paused and unpaused the video without placing a space. F brought the video to full screen and did type the letter. Other hotkeys did whatever they do while typing.
 
Aurongel

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It's a bug y'all, don't be dramatic 🥱. Fixing issues like this isn't as simple as typing "git commit" into a terminal window.
 
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plngsplsh

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Here is something weird: I just tried it and it really doesn't work, but then if I open the console and then type something into the search bar, space works just fine.
 
TarpitCarnivore

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Aurongel said:
It's a big y'all, don't be dramatic 🥱. Fixing issues like this isn't as simple as typing "git commit" into a terminal window.
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It can be quite simple with a rollback unless Google prefers fixing forward. Even if they do, it's not like their having a massive ddos this is not some complex problem to identify and fix.
 
killerrin

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TarpitCarnivore said:
The fact that this hasn't been fixed yet is pretty astounding. Two hours and no one has identified or hit this bug yet?
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Two hours? That's nothing for Google.

Try this Android 11 Bug that broke Gamepad input for literally everything that Google refuses to acknowledge as a problem despite it being in their issue tracker, having been reported since before the official launch of Android 11, and it being littered with dozens of new comments daily reporting the issue.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/163120692#comment218
 
TarpitCarnivore

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killerrin said:
Two hours? That's nothing for Google.

Try this Android 11 Bug that broke Gamepad input for literally everything that Google refuses to acknowledge as a problem despite it being in their issue tracker and littered with dozens of new comments daily reporting the issue

Google Issue Tracker

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YouTube is a far bigger use than the game pad I'd wager. Also that is not surprising at all considering all the horror stories I've read about Android API stuff between versions
 
killerrin

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TarpitCarnivore said:
YouTube is a far bigger use than the game pad I'd wager. Also that is not surprising at all considering all the horror stories I've read about Android API stuff between versions
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Sure. Until you realize that the reason its broken is because accessibility options are broken in Android 11 because you fix the issue I linked to by disabling your accessibility options. And Accessibility options in android are going to have an equally massive user base as YouTube

Point being. Google kinda sucks at this stuff
 
tbone

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Keyboard shortcuts on the web are a pain in the butt. This is the sort of bug that automated smoke tests are for tho.
 
Tacitus

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Hmm. Spacebar only works for pause/unpause in a new video tab I opened, but in an old tab it exhibits that behaviour only if the there isn't an input box in focus (tested the search bar and the reply box).

I think someone was fucking around with input focus and spacebar and managed this.
 
hey it's that dog

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Broken for me on Firefox. But don't worry, just type a long string of characters and The Algorithm will suggest all the searches you could ever need.
 
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