Apple keyboard shortcuts?

[damacus]

Thanks for the quick reply on firefox addons.

The keyboard shortcuts "MediaNextTrack", "MediaPlayPause", "MediaPrevTrack" don't seem to work with Firefox. Insterad as Chrome isn't open they open iTunes.

[lidel]

I think MacOS is simply hijacking your media keys, in a fashion similar to what MS Windows 10 does
with CTRL+SHIFT+0 (#3 (comment)).

I don't own a Mac, but here are two apps to try:

1. http://milgra.com/high-sierra-media-key-enabler.html
2. https://bekirserifoglu.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/solutionworkaround-for-mac-os-high-sierra-unified-media-buttons-playpause-next-and-previous-track-problem/
3. discussions with more resources
   • https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8086054
   • https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/6ytp02/the_new_behaviour_of_the_media_keys_in_high/

Let me know if you find a working solution, I would love to add it to README.

[damacus]

So t his is really interesting, that's the behaviour I want (and have with Chrome).

if Google play music (GPM) is open, pressing play doesn't open iTunes another music player. It simply detects that GPM is playing audio and controls that window. Maybe it's a Firefox thing?

https://bekirserifoglu.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/solutionworkaround-for-mac-os-high-sierra-unified-media-buttons-playpause-next-and-previous-track-problem/

[lidel]

Not sure if related, but Firefox does not support "global" shortcuts yet (Bug 1411795) which means its window needs to be focused for key press to be registered by this extension.
Do you think this may be the case?

[damacus]

Almost? I'm seeing that behaviour even if I'm currently in Firefox.

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[lidel]

AFAIK there is an additional Mac-specific handling for media buttons and <audio> in Chrome that probably made it work for you there, but it is not present in Firefox.

If Firefox is in focus and media buttons are configured like this and it does not work, then it is probably OS or some other app hijacking your key presses.

[lidel]

FYI there is a related upstream bug at:

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=396991