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It may be a nice feature, but for me Firefox's implementation seems to be a bit too intrusive, because as a developer I can't disable it and it is always visible as a browser-styled overlay. Not all video elements are for stand-alone consumption. For example, there are "hero" videos in landing pages, enterprise solutions requiring smart overlays, or imagine a component in an online video editor. Firefox also have no…
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I completely agree - I use i3 and was interested to see that this just pops up a floating window over all of my others. When reading the feature my thought was that it would be a floating window _within_ the browser window - which I think I would have preferred.
I disagree with that. The browser already does too much "window management" already. I like that it pops out a separate window that I can do with what I please rather than being limited to whatever window management functionality they decide to add to their internal "window".
So popping out a new firefox window that operates like a normal window would be great, but the current solution seems like the worst of both worlds.
Also on an unrelated note, seeing your username we used to work together - hope all is going well :)
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I disagree with that. The browser already does too much "window management" already. I like that it pops out a separate window that I can do with what I please rather than being limited to whatever window management functionality they decide to add to their internal "window".
Possibly - but in my case the windows was just floating on top of all of my other windows, and whilst I could move and resize it, I could not move it like other windows. So popping out a new firefox window that operates like a normal window would be great, but the current solution seems like the worst of both worlds. Also on an unrelated note, seeing your username we used to work together - hope all is going well :)
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Possibly - but in my case the windows was just floating on top of all of my other windows, and whilst I could move and resize it, I could not move it like other windows. So popping out a new firefox window that operates like a normal window would be great, but the current solution seems like the worst of both worlds. Also on an unrelated note, seeing your username we used to work together - hope all is going well :)
Ah, that is weird. The window behaved fairly normally for me. (I'm on Linux Wayland)
I'm using a tiled window manager on X and was rather confused by other comments here, before realizing my window manager must be giving me unintended control over the video popup. I just get a floating window that's fully draggable and resizable identically to other windows.
Wait this is not new is it ? Ive beenm using it for the past 6 months at least...
Yeah, I've been able to use it for months (FF on Mac)... Was it rolled out to certain computers for testing before?
YouTube 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.
I've been using pipifier for this - especially for Netflix, didn't know about this until now - thanks
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Ah, that is weird. The window behaved fairly normally for me. (I'm on Linux Wayland)
Do you happen to use sway? (Or maybe just Wayland in general does it..) I'm using a tiled window manager on X and was rather confused by other comments here, before realizing my window manager must be giving me unintended control over the video popup. I just get a floating window that's fully draggable and resizable identically to other windows.
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I like more than thought I would. I can keep going through tabs without losing the video. The problem for me is it doesn’t have controls past pause and play. If I want to back the video up or skip it forward I need to go figure out which tab it’s coming from, and I can’t remember if I have to unpop to get controls. Windows 10, ymmv.
This also annoys me. Even just allowing arrow keys to seek back and forth would be enough for now.