This is brilliant! I've been looking for a replacement for Helium on Windows and this seems to be it!
Firefox Picture-in-Picture
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#13Mozilla Tech Blog from January on implementing it: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/01/how-we-built-picture-in-pi... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22283386)
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#14I've tried it, it's awesome. The things I'm missing in that new window are progress bar and volume control. Or at least I haven't seen a way to make them visible.
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#15I've been using this since it was launched and I constantly forget that I need to keep the browser tab open for PIP to work. Doh. Would be cool if the PiP window was another instance of the native window with its zero-decor.
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#16YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?
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#17YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?
They do? As in, paying will expose a control on their player to enter PiP in supported platforms?
Note: other than FF, you can also trigger PiP (edit: on Safari) on a YouTube video by double-right-clicking on the video element OR long pressing on the speaker icon on the tab/address bar.
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#18YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?
More info on this? I think that may only be for mobile apps. Does PiP even work on mobile browsers?
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#19YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?
They do? As in, paying will expose a control on their player to enter PiP in supported platforms? Note: other than FF, you can also trigger PiP (edit: on Safari) on a YouTube video by double-right-clicking on the video element OR long pressing on the speaker icon on the tab/address bar.
> other than FF, you can also trigger PiP on a YouTube video by double-right-clicking on the video element OR long pressing on the speaker icon on the tab/address bar.
Neither of these worked for me. Chrome 83 on Win 10.
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#20YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?
More info on this? I think that may only be for mobile apps. Does PiP even work on mobile browsers?
PiP currently works in Safari on iPad, and will also work in Safari on iPhone starting with iOS 14.
Not sure if it's possible to get a browser-based YouTube video to go PiP on iOS Safari.