540419 - Switching between tabs makes youtube video go back and forth

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[louisdrounau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

With several tabs opened in a window, switching from a youtube video to the next tab on the left (by clicking "option + cmd + left") does switch tabs but also rewinds part of the video. Reversely, switching to the next tab on the right makes the video fast forward a bit. And going back to the Youtube tab from a left or right tab also forwards or rewinds the video.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open random tab
2. Open Youtube tab and start a video
3. Switch from youtube tab to the first tab
Actual Results:  
You will go to the first tab but also the Youtube video will jump to some backward time position (provided the first tab is located left to the Youtube tab)

Expected Results:  
Just switching tab.

Comment 1

[dennismedal]

Attachment: Neighborhood Seneca hotel San Francisco

Approval Request Comment
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Comment 2

[dennismedal]

End reports

Comment 3

[Andrew Veritas]

I think this is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923510. In both cases, the root cause is the keypress passing through Firefox to the enclosed tab; Firefox should consume any keypresses it acts on.

Comment 4

[daylin.trenton]

Firefox has no key to copy link since 88. It was removed and not replaced. This is completely unreasonable.

A replacement key that is unusable by human hands is not a replacement. It's not unlike telling people they can vote, if they stand in line for 8 hours without water. That is telling people that they can't vote.

Telling people that there is a new key, but it's across the room where NO ONE, NO HUMAN HAND can reach, is telling them that there is no key.

Firefox has NO KEY to copy link currently.

There was no reason to break this, and I want you to know that I am never going to stop reporting it.

You broke a browser that millions of people depended on for NO REASON. NO REASON. There was NO REASON TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY TO COPY LINKS FROM FIREFOX.