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Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#131
post #73

Is anyone else annoyed that Mozilla chose to spam them with an ad for this new feature via the email address they received when creating the Firefox sync account? Is this really such an important thing that warrants sending an unsolicited message to every Firefox user's inbox? Yes, the footer says "You're receiving this email because .. is subscribed to Firefox Account Tips." and indeed I can now see that setting in…

The horror

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#132
PiP is such a useful feature. Even though I use a window manager, I like the fact that I can just take whatever video is playing out from my current tab and move it over to my programming workspace and follow a tutorial or something. No need to create a new window. When I'm done, I can put it right back to the original tab on the original workspace with a single click. Especially useful with floating mode enabled.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#133
PiP is a cool feature but I've recently found another way to "stream" video from the web which is now pretty much my default: For a lot of sites you can either curl or youtube-dl the video to a file and thanks to the way encodings and container formats work you can just play the file back using your favorite media player while the download is still in progress. You can't seek past the download head unfortunately but the playback you get is much more pleasant (and for some reason also faster?) than say, on YouTube.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#134

PiP is a cool feature but I've recently found another way to "stream" video from the web which is now pretty much my default: For a lot of sites you can either curl or youtube-dl the video to a file and thanks to the way encodings and container formats work you can just play the file back using your favorite media player while the download is still in progress. You can't seek past the download head unfortunately but…

I use it directly from VLC when I need to boost up the sound a few db beyond the original threshold

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#136
post #33

This seems like a massive feature that I can't believe hasn't been baked into Chrome yet. I know Safari has an implementation but it always feels limited and of course cannot be used on Windows or Linux. I need to put this through its paces, but it may vault Firefox back into the role of my default browser.

While it is truly a nice feature, it is hardly the main reason why should anyone concerned with the future of the web use Firefox as default browser.

Actually, this is the main reason why I had Opera installed on three computers for three years. All uninstalled now.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#138
post #73

Is anyone else annoyed that Mozilla chose to spam them with an ad for this new feature via the email address they received when creating the Firefox sync account? Is this really such an important thing that warrants sending an unsolicited message to every Firefox user's inbox? Yes, the footer says "You're receiving this email because .. is subscribed to Firefox Account Tips." and indeed I can now see that setting in…

> I'm sure that checkbox popped up sometime after I created the account and was conveniently set to "true" by default.

Someone got paid to sell you out and cashed their check on your privacy. I wonder if they have a gdpr contact and what it would look like if you forwarded this and told them you did not consent to it.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#139
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don’t like window decorations (and I don’t blame you) just run a wm with no window decorations (like cwm.)

there's a lot of firefox users that don't want to switch to a new window manager (or operating system) just for the sake of being able to pop a video out of the window it came from.

This makes sense on one hand, but could also be used to justify all kinds of of non browser features that would make both WMs and FF worse off in the long run.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#140

PiP is a cool feature but I've recently found another way to "stream" video from the web which is now pretty much my default: For a lot of sites you can either curl or youtube-dl the video to a file and thanks to the way encodings and container formats work you can just play the file back using your favorite media player while the download is still in progress. You can't seek past the download head unfortunately but…

I use it directly from VLC when I need to boost up the sound a few db beyond the original threshold

Wait, VLC has a youtube-dl integration?
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