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Offline The Chief

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New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« on: May 12, 2013, 12:39:18 PM »
Perhaps this is old news, but I just discovered it.

When playing a YouTube video in Firefox, the space bar will pause/resume the video.  Much more convenient than trying to zero in on that tiny pause or resume icon.

Heck, it probably will work with most any video, not just YouTube...
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 02:31:19 PM »
+1 excellent! Thank you for that tip.
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2013, 03:27:55 PM »
Quote from: The Chief on May 12, 2013, 12:39:18 PM
Perhaps this is old news, but I just discovered it.

When playing a YouTube video in Firefox, the space bar will pause/resume the video.  Much more convenient than trying to zero in on that tiny pause or resume icon.

Heck, it probably will work with most any video, not just YouTube...

Left and right arrow keys also work for back and forward.
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2013, 03:36:25 PM »
Quote from: Old-Polack on May 12, 2013, 03:27:55 PM
Quote from: The Chief on May 12, 2013, 12:39:18 PM
Perhaps this is old news, but I just discovered it.

When playing a YouTube video in Firefox, the space bar will pause/resume the video.  Much more convenient than trying to zero in on that tiny pause or resume icon.

Heck, it probably will work with most any video, not just YouTube...

Left and right arrow keys also work for back and forward.

Cool beans!
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2013, 03:49:30 PM »
Quote from: Texstar on May 12, 2013, 03:36:25 PM
Quote from: Old-Polack on May 12, 2013, 03:27:55 PM
Quote from: The Chief on May 12, 2013, 12:39:18 PM
Perhaps this is old news, but I just discovered it.

When playing a YouTube video in Firefox, the space bar will pause/resume the video.  Much more convenient than trying to zero in on that tiny pause or resume icon.

Heck, it probably will work with most any video, not just YouTube...

Left and right arrow keys also work for back and forward.

Cool beans!

Those are the same keys that work for the same purposes with Xine, Kaffeine, MPlayer, SMPlayer, and Dragon Player. The space bar works as pause in VLC, but the arrow keys do nothing. None of those keys do anything in KMPlayer.
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2013, 04:57:05 PM »
You can also pause a YouTube video by clicking anywhere in the video window. Click again and it will resume.
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2013, 06:53:26 AM »
The Tab key selects some options as well
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2013, 10:58:09 AM »
I always have to use mouse click first if I am to use tab as pause/play
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2013, 11:17:48 AM »
I guess you could also use UP arrow to raise and DOWN arrow to lower volume :)
At least on Windows it is so and I am not sure how you Linux geeks do it ;) ;)
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2013, 01:26:56 PM »
Quote from: sling-shot on May 14, 2013, 11:17:48 AM
I guess you could also use UP arrow to raise and DOWN arrow to lower volume :)
At least on Windows it is so and I am not sure how you Linux geeks do it ;) ;)
Yes, it does work in Linux. That's one I didn't know. I have system volume control on this keyboard so I usually use that.
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Re: New trick for YouTube on Firefox
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2013, 03:05:58 PM »
Quote from: Old-Polack on May 12, 2013, 03:49:30 PM
Those are the same keys that work for the same purposes with Xine, Kaffeine, MPlayer, SMPlayer, and Dragon Player. The space bar works as pause in VLC, but the arrow keys do nothing. None of those keys do anything in KMPlayer.

Well - I'm sure I would have discovered that, if I ever used any of those long enough to experiment.   :-[
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