Why can't the Adobe Flash player send key strokes it doesn't handle to the browse in which it is run

Posted by jim.e.clark on Super User See other posts from Super User or by jim.e.clark
Published on 2009-12-17T11:13:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 1:43 UTC
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I'm a heavy web user that uses the address bar constantly while browsing the web. I often use Ctrl + T to open a new tab or Ctrl + D to move focus to the address bar so it is very annoying that these shortcut keys do not work when a Flash object has focus on the active browser tab.

I would happily give up all keyboard handling in the Flash Player in exchange for having keystrokes sent to the browser. In fact, as someone who has worked in software development for over 15 years it is hard to believe that Flash doesn't pass common browser shortcut keys to the browser or have an option to do so.

So my question is this:

Am I missing some option, some Flash shortcut key or some Firefox add-on that will alleviate my suffering?

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