[MayeulC]

That would be great. My main use-case is watching youtube videos.

When watching a video, I often pause (space) to have a better look at what's on the screen [-> rewind (left)] -> play (space)

I absolutely loathe youtube's "suggested videos" that pop in my face when I try to focus on a specific frame. I never used that feature, it's just a way to shove ads in my face. Moreover, if I close it, the open/close button is now focused, and space brings it up again instead of resuming the video. This is tedious.

I thought that PiP would solve that, but it looks like I cannot pause the video with space if I haven't clicked the pause button already, and I can't seek.

I often just revert to pasting the URL for mpv to open it after getting frustrated and losing my time with both other methods.

[aasasd]

Suggested videos can be ‘disabled’ with rules in uBlock Origin or other extensions. I'm not at the desktop so you'll have to search the web for the exact element classes/ids.

[aasasd]

Here's the class, stick this in the ‘my filters’ of uBO:

  youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay

[tialaramex]

Are you sure Youtube's keyboard shortcut for pause is "Space" for you? For me it's K, with J being jump backward a few seconds and L being jump forward a few seconds. I don't know if the media buttons (Pause, Rewind, Fast Forward) would also work as this keyboard pre-dates Windows 95 so it doesn't have anything like that. [ Yes I should buy a new keyboard... ]

[MayeulC]

Thank you, I hadn't realized there were separate keyboard shortcuts, even though the one for pause is indicated on hover.

Even though space conflicts with toggling the currently selected item (tab/space), it is the more common shortcut in video player applications, and is quite easy to reach. I also think that mouse clicking an element shouldn't change the keyboard selection to that one.

Not sure how those media control are interpreted, I think I usually set them to control the MPRIS interface, so they would at the very least work on KDE with plasma browser integration.

Written with my SUN type-7 keyboard

[ygra]

Space works as long as the video player has keyboard focus. Otherwise the default browser behavior takes over which is the same as Page Down.

[retox]

You can use stylish to remove the suggested popup div, if there's any interest I will put up a gist somewhere. I also wrote some custom CSS to center the controls rather than have them spread across my ultra-wide monitor. Huge quality of life improvement if you watch a lot of yt.

[retox]

Here are my stylesheet changes; https://pastebin.com/mRgPWKTd