Starting a Flash video disables keyboard shortcuts

[Dražen Lučanin]

When I click play on a Youtube video, Firefox doesn't respond to keyboard shortcuts any more, even though it's shown to be the active window. Before I can get it to react to e.g. <ctrl>+L to let me enter something in the Awesome bar, I have to pick up my mouse, click somewhere on the webpage outside the Flash video and only then can I start entering keyboard shortcuts again.

Expected behaviour - keyboard shortcuts should work the whole time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: firefox 18.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
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Date: Sat Feb 2 13:47:46 2013
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[Nathaniel Robison (nrobison11)]

From what I understand this is more than related to Flash hijacking than firefox. But I could be wrong.
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[Dražen Lučanin (kermit666)]

Yeah, that's probably so. Also, I'm thinking Flash games (if anyone
plays those these days) wouldn't be playable if some keystrokes were
interpreted by the browser.

Still, it would be nice if some wide-used browser key combos such as
ctrl+T or ctrl+L got caught by the browser. For example in OS X I find
that this works - cmd+L jums directly to the nav bar.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Nathaniel Robison <email address hidden> wrote:
> >From what I understand this is more than related to Flash hijacking than firefox. But I could be wrong.
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.