Able to repro this issue on Windows 8.1 & 10 for Google Chrome Stable Version - 51.0.2704.63

This is a Non-Regression issue existing from M30 - # 30.0.1549.0

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Assigning to Mounir for triage

As far as I know, Chromed doesn't use the media keys apart from a Chrome Extension API. I have a couple of questions to help triage this:
- is it Windows only? (what about Mac/Linux/Chrome OS?)
- does it still happen with all extensions disabled?
- does the behaviour of stolen keys happen when focusing another app than Chrome?

-Unsure about OS. I don't have Mac or Linux installations available to test, but I can test on Chrome OS soon and update.

-I can confirm it happens with all extensions disabled, as well as on a completely fresh installation of Chrome Canary.

-In almost all cases, the behavior of stolen keys does not happen in apps other than Chrome. I only know of two other apps I use that also steal media keys: Photoshop CS3 and Open Broadcaster Software. It's impossible to say if there's something in common between them that's causing the same result.

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@mlamouri: This is not confined to Windows, this is happening on MAC (10.11.5) & Ubuntu Trusty (14.04).

In the MAC (10.11.5) PLAY/PAUSE is working when the focus is on Google Chrome Browser.

Thank you.

Additional Info:

Next/Previous is not working. Used the beneath mentioned players to play videos.

MAC - Quic Time Player
Linux - Videos [Totem Website]

rnimmagadda@, can you define "not working"? Chrome isn't expected to handle the media keys so if pressing them has no impact on a website open in Chrome, it's expected.

@mlamouri: I mean to say it was "Not Functional". Sorry about that.

Verified it again and found that the same is observed on Firefox as well. Not a Chrome Issue alone.

Thank you.

rnimmagadda@, it seems that OP was pointing an issue with the keys being intercepted by Chrome, not about the keys not working. In other words, when Chrome is open, even if the keys do nothing, they seem to block other apps from using them. That was on Mac, though.

I have an update on this, which provides an answer and solution to half of the issue, at least for Winamp users.

I attempted to reproduce the bug on another computer using the same keyboard, and was unable to. It then occurred to me that while I had reproduced the bug with different versions of Chrome, I had never tried reproducing it with different media players. Sure enough, I tried a different media player and it worked- Chrome did not capture and block the media key input while in focus. So this particular issue lies exclusively with Winamp. For any googlers, the fix is to go to Winamp Preferences -> Global Hotkeys -> Enable default multimedia key support and check the checkbox.
Dunno how that got unchecked or why it's not checked by default. Chalk that up to me being an idiot and not testing *everything*... Sorry!

This solves half of the issue, but Chrome still eats the input from the extra keys on my keyboard while in focus and has odd behavior with some other keys. The eaten keys are the G1-G12 keys (Logitech G110 keyboard). The keys are bound to macros using the Logitech G-series Key Profiler app that comes with the keyboard. Pressing the keys while Chrome is in focus causes them to do nothing. No other application causes this while in focus. I can confirm that this happens regardless of what the assigned macro is.

Another odd Chrome interaction that fits in this category is the Print Screen key. I have a freeware program (Greenshot) that handles/crops screenshots when the key is pressed, but when Chrome is in focus Greenshot never activates. Instead the entire screen is captured by Windows, which is the default functionality of the Print Screen key. Again, no other application causes this while in focus.

Thank you for continuing to update and investigate!

Thank you for the follow-up! :) I renamed the bug title to remove mention of media keys. Note that I work on Media stuff so I will not be able to help on the general hotkeys being eaten by Chrome.

[mac triage] There's nothing about Mac here. I don't think Logitech ever made software to support their keyboard macros on OSX.

Checking back in over a year later! I think I found a workaround for one of these issues.

The Logitech Key Profiler doesn't interact properly with Chrome, but Logitech has another app called Logitech Gaming Software that seems to play nice. It is available here: http://support.logitech.com/en_us/software/lgs
After installing it, the macros assigned to my G1-G12 keys work, even when Chrome is in focus! So that's pretty awesome.

As far as I can tell, the only remaining issue is that Chrome doesn't play nice with Greenshot. It still eats the Print Screen keypress, which indicates to me that there's still some underlying issue with certain keys and Chrome.

Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over a year.

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Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over a year.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!