Shortcuts to close tab (CMD+W) don't work if a YouTube video is selected

Safari 8.0 (unlike the previous version) will not close a tab with a shortcut, if I have a YouTube video selected within the browser. I.e. if I click somewhere else on the YouTube page, shortcuts start to work again.

I agree with your diagnosis of the problem.
When the plugin trapping the focus is an embedded Flash player, you can use certain meta keys to resolve the issue. For example, you can use Alt+Tab twice to switch focus between Firefox and another application and then back again.
I'm not sure whether there is a solution when the entire tab is taken over by the Adobe Acrobat plugin because when the focus comes back to Firefox the focus within the page remains in the control. (Also, at least on my system, the control sometimes seems to hang and fails to redraw, so this definitely is not a recommended approach.) Does it work for you to disable the Adobe Acrobat plugin so that PDFs launch in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application?

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