Keyboard and Cursor Loss on YouTube

Recently I have run into the problem of loss of keyboard function when commenting YouTube videos. Yesterday I commented several videos and then suddenly my keyboard would no longer function in the comments section. My comments were completely routine sorts of things on a number of video contextual subjects. When I closed the browser and re-opened it, I got the keyboard back and it did then function normally in the comments. Still, I thought it was odd for that to happen.

Today, doing the same sort of thing in YouTube comments, I lost cursor function, with the cursor migrating to the top right corner of the screen. I could agitate it by moving the mouse but it would not come down from its perch. This happened twice and I could only correct it by restarting the computer.

I had about 11 tabs open in the browser, Opera 31.0, at the time.

My computer is a PC (Lenovo desktop, 3.3 ghz. Intel Core i3-2120 processor, 6 GB RAM) running the recent Windows 10 (Home Premium) upgrade.

All help appreciated, as always.

a reply to: ipsedixit

11 open tabs? If it never happened before....well....close a couple.

P's my It guy said years ago....no more than like 6, or else can get globbed in the cookie dough.

a reply to: mysterioustranger

I think you are right about this. I have closed some of the tabs. I've noticed in the past that having tabs open from the site noteflight.com, a music notation and composition site, will cause browser problems in YouTube, so that might be the culprit. YouTube is really the only site I have noticed this happening to.

Thanks.

Losing the cursor, though, was weird. That's never happened before.

a reply to: ipsedixit

Its happened to me on a couple of occasions. I think if you open certain pages and get pop-ups, something on that page or pop-up can takeover your Mouse control until you close the browser!

It sounds like a simple Opera bug that you should probably report to the software makers. Or it could be a windows bug too.

Does it happen just in Opera?

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a reply to: TruthxIsxInxThexMist

Interactive pages like noteflight sometimes issue prompts to save etc. It might be cause by that. Restarting the browser seems to be the answer.

a reply to: OrgoneWarrior

I am just using Opera, so yes, just in Opera. It is not a frequent occurrence and might just be related to the number of tabs I had open. I'm going to let it go for now, unless it becomes a chronic thing. Losing the cursor was odd for me, hence this thread.