Weird spacebar behavior on soundslice.com

[simeonK]

Hi.

Every time I press the spacebar on any slice screen (eg. https://www.soundslice.com/slices/q9KCc/?from=search), it toggles the play/pause, but I get redirected to https://www.soundslice.com/community/ right away.

Tried it on a clean Vivaldi installation, with no extensions and got the same result. Tried other browsers and it works fine (play/pause, no redirect).

Printing document.activeElement returned the entire body element, so it doesn't look like a focus issue.
I placed a breakpoint in the spacebar handler of the "tab player" and from there I believe I got to the code of the
mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli extension (which I found has other issues) based on the value of runtime id which was in the stacktrace.

The exact place I get redirected is right after t.click() gets executed, where t is the anchor to the /community page.

Can someone please look into it? The site is unusable and I believe this is Vivaldi's issue. I already asked the website developers to check as well.

modedit: link to shady website removed. Please take more care to not hotlink domains

[Hadden89]

@simeonK Do a report if you already didn't.

[simeonK]

@Hadden89 will do, thanks
EDIT: created VB-112866

[Pathduck]

@simeonK This is a Spacebar+FastForward issue.

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/navigation/fast-forward-rewind/

To stop it happening, just disable the setting:

Space key to fast forward

It's a neat feature but can mess with some sites.

The bug report is valid, but I doubt much can be done about it as some sites just break with the FFWD feature.

I got to the code of the mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli extension (which I found has other issues)

Yes mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli is Vivaldi itself, it's got issues

If you're interested you can see all "hidden" extensions at
chrome://system

[Hadden89]

@Pathduck A feature I didn't know .. a warning or keeping opt-in would be nice as spacebar to play/pause is quite used.

[Pathduck]

@Hadden89 It only breaks for some sites. Most sites Space works just fine to play/pause. It depends if FFWD finds a "next" link or not.

I have it mapped to Shift+X as well as enabled for Space. I don't have any problem with it on most sites. Having it default disabled would probably by a good idea.