Ever noticed plugins stealing your keyboard focus in Firefox so you can’t use Firefox keys anymore? Very frustrating because I thought the only way to get focus out of the plugin is to use the mouse, which may be unavailable.
Funny, it turns out this has been a known bug for 8 years! Well, I’ve found a work-around that works for me in FF3 on Windows XP, and I included it in some comments on bugzilla:
When I’ve focused a flash object, windows shortcuts like ctrl-escape and alt-f4 still work. If you have more than one tab open and you enable the “warn me when closing multiple tabs” option.. you can press alt-f4 and the browser will pop up the warning/confirmation.. you can then hit escape to say “no I didn’t actually want to close” and focus has magically been shifted back to Firefox!
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what a joke. i wonder if opera has this problem.
I routinely have focus weirdness on OSX. I find it has more to do with the OSX UI not clearly indicating which is the active window. It could of course, just be me.