Vimium breaks essential video functionality
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Description
Hi. Thanks for a great project. Just wanted to raise an issue which does not seem to have attracted any attention. One of the first things I noticed after installing vimium is that it breaks key video functionality designed to improve accessibility. I'm referring to the use of the numbers 0~9 as seeking shortcuts (ie. pressing '0' takes you to the start of the video, pressing '5' takes you to the middle, pressing '9' seeks to the 90% mark). Youtube is the most important site with this functionality but it is becoming increasingly common. 'Flowplayer' is another video platform with this feature.
I know there is an option to disable vimium in selected websites but this feels like a suboptimal solution.
The other vim extensions i've tried don't suffer from this.
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Research direction
Reproduce the conflict on YouTube and Flowplayer while Vimium is enabled, then trace the extension's keyboard-handling entry point. The issue is done when numeric seeking shortcuts continue to work on video sites without requiring Vimium to be disabled for those sites.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100