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Uploaded by on Sep 2, 2008

Firefox has a bug with youtube or maybe it's flash and firefox?

When I watch videos on youtube, then press 'control tab' to switch to another tab, it doesn't work.
It works for all other tabs but for youtube pages, it breaks.

It has something to do with that little tiny outline box which appears in your tab, up the top in firefox.

I have no idea how to fix this, I think I need a plugin which stops applications like flash 'hi-jacking' the tab.

I need control tab working in all tabs, I am one sad panda.

If you need more info, reply.

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  • why douse this vid work for me but no outhers

  • This video is about how Adobe Flash steals keyboard focus from firefox.

  • This problem is specifically a foreground issue with plugins and applications for firefox 'stealing focus' of key controls, flash is the problem in this case.

  • All the little annoying flash problems have been fixed on the beta 2. I have no problems with flash now.

  • Beta 2 of what? This is a foreground issue.

  • You must click outside the video to make the Ctrl-Tab work.

  • Firefox should have control tab ALWAYS control tab movement.

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  • wish i could hear the firefox, youtube sound fix.

  • wish i could hear the firefox youtube bug

  • dam it i cant see the video all i can see is a black box where the video is how do i fix this?

  • Thanx for your comment!-Pedro Wyant

  • Thanx man!

  • @songnight Your welcome! I couldn't believe it either after reading all these complicated fixes that didn't work, until I stumbled on this one that worked so easily. I felt like I had to share this with people since it seems as if there are many who have or had this problem. Happy You Tubing!

  • @NewPaltz75 Thanks so much! That did it!!

  • Worked for me and is very EASY for anybody! Type in ONLY the following on your Firefox address bar (about:config) and press enter.(That's a colon in between words).Enter. Will ask if you're sure, Click" I promise." You'll see your configurations. Scroll down to DOM Storage, which might be in BOLD, If it shows False, right click and then click reset,which will change it to True! I don't know anything about computers, but when I changed it to true, all was fixed using YouTube with Firefox 3.6.12!

  • FireFox Is Pissing me Off

  • I wonder if this happens with HTML5 and Youtube. I can't believe Flash still does this and there's no fix yet after all these years! I hate having to click somewhere to get my keyboard shortcuts working again. Thanks Adobe, no wonder why the iPhone OS doesn't use your technology!

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