Hello! Recently, Youtube started being played/paused as I press my keyboard media keys. I’ve found other similar topics which suggested this: Type brave://flags into the address bar Search for a flag called #enable-media-key-handling Disable the flag and relaunch the browser when prompted. Howe…

Editing this post to make it very clear what the solution is: Go to brave://flags and find “Temporarily unexpire M100 flags”, and enable it. Restart the browser, go back to brave://flags and the Hardware Media Key flag should be there. This worked for me.

Media Keys - media key option disappeared/gone/not showing up

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Chocoholic May 1, 2022, 9:29pm 4

Can you provide details of what fixed it? I looked at the reddit post and couldn’t find the workaround. See my post here:

If it is enabling the flag mentioned in the other post, can you just post the flag please?

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Media Keys - media key option disappeared/gone/not showing up

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