For applications such as VLC I have global function keys I can map to, for example, pause my music/video even when I have a different program running.
Is there any way to get this functionality with YouTube?
Youtube – Keyboard shortcut to pause YouTube when it is not the active window
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Best Answer
If you use Chrome you can use the streamkeys extension.
I learned about this in this post: https://superuser.com/a/901979