Doesn't Chrome do this too? If you click the music button in the toolbar, you can pop out a video to an always-on-top window that you can watch overtop of other apps.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Oops - sorry! I forgot to include the important bit about Safari on macOS. Updated my comment.
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#23«Toddler duty» is a fantastic marketing approach to the feature! (While I usually deprecate using videos to entertain toddlers and kids, using it to have them close to you looks… good I guess)
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#24This is normally a window manager feature, why put it in browser where it's limited to browser tabs?
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#25PiP is such a great feature. I have no idea how easy/hard it was to implement but it feels nice to use. It does exactly what you'd expect it to do and nothing more. I use it while watching overwatch league games in the browser because it allows me to resize the popped-out video arbitrarily, instead of the site's embedded youtube player options of either tiny-window-in-browser or full-screen sizes (there is no theater…
It works better than the native support on OSX. A lot of videos I watch on Safari don't show the PIP button but work fine on Firefox.
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#26Opera has had this feature for years and features more playback controls than FF. It seems many features start on Opera then get "invented" in other browsers afterwards.
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#27I love PiP but I wish it worked for multiple videos simultaneously on desktop.
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#28PiP is such a great feature. I have no idea how easy/hard it was to implement but it feels nice to use. It does exactly what you'd expect it to do and nothing more. I use it while watching overwatch league games in the browser because it allows me to resize the popped-out video arbitrarily, instead of the site's embedded youtube player options of either tiny-window-in-browser or full-screen sizes (there is no theater…
It works better than the native support on OSX. A lot of videos I watch on Safari don't show the PIP button but work fine on Firefox.
In Safari, you can right-click the speaker icon in the tab or address bar, and there's a PIP option in the menu.
Not as accessible as Firefox for sure.
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#29This is normally a window manager feature, why put it in browser where it's limited to browser tabs?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean about browser tabs.
This pops the video outside of the browser's chrome, so you can drag it wherever you want.
They implemented it in Firefox because Firefox is the one detecting and playing the video? MacOS already has a similar feature, but AFAIK it only works in Safari.
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#30This is a nice feature.
> play alongside while you go about your business on
> other tabs or do things outside of Firefox.
Do we need to watch video while we go about our business? You better finish your business or the video. Which leaves me thinking: this is kind of bloat.