Vimium breaks scrolling with spacebar in PDFs
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Description
Recently I started having an issue with viewing PDFs in Chrome, where spacebar would not scroll the PDF until I pressed space once, then clicked in the PDF. Before clicking inside the PDF, Vimium shortcuts work (e.g. >> to move the tab), but once the PDF is clicked to make scroll-with-spacebar work, Vimium shortcuts stop working.
Disabling Vimium fixes the issue, so for now I've added an exclude rule for *\.pdf.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in Chrome with Vimium enabled and a PDF open, comparing behavior before and after clicking inside the PDF and with Vimium disabled. Trace the input and focus handling involved in PDF pages; done means the spacebar scrolls the PDF while Vimium shortcuts continue to work.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100