Browser’s keyboard shortcuts not working in web pages using plugins like Flash or Acrobat
Have you every been annoyed about not being able to use shortcuts like Ctrl-W, Ctrl-N, Ctrl-L, Ctrl-T on some pages? If you didn’t figure it out this is happening only on pages with plug-ins, like Flash or Acrobat. The reason for this is due to the the way the keyboard messages are working.
Because on Windows platform the keyboard messages are sent only to the window with focus at least the plug-ins should send the unprocessed keyboard messages to the parent window (the browser). Nobody took the responsibility to solve it because it is a “technology limitation” so user experience is just bad as it was 8 years ago when the bug was fist filled on Mozilla site.
Right now the only way you could help is by voting on these two places:
- Mozilla’s 8 years old bug on keyboard shortcuts and plugins
- Request for Adobe to update Flash player plugin to send unprocessed keyboard messages to the browser – already #6 request for Flash on DearAdobe.com
- Request to Adobe to update the Adobat plugin in order to keep browser shortcuts working.
On Linux there is a way of solving this issue by using an extension.
English
Exactly! I find this so annoying! What a way to break the UI