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Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by iaml »

ashconnor wrote: post #25
bentcorner wrote: post #8

PiP 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.

The actual pip window in firefox is not native and as such 1) doesn't support spaces that well 2) does not support minimizing 3) looks worse

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by 65536 »

james412 wrote: post #131
avian wrote: 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

Email is a dumpster fire. I run my own mail server and I don’t have any spam filtering. My inbox is full of spam and “helpful tips” and other garbage. Because of this I rarely read my email.

I would set up spam filtering but I don’t trust SpamAssasin to actually be useful rather than just another headache, because last time I was on a system where it was in use it routinely marked non-spam things as spam while simultaneously letting through a whole lot of spam. Admittedly this was years ago.

I did find Paul Graham’s essay on spam filtering inspiring and thought about doing something like that for myself. But although I have a huge corpus of spam, I don’t have a whole lot of non-spam because I don’t receive a lot of non-spam.

Spam is also annoying and uninspiring to do anything about because it is just yet another of the billions of problems that we have that were caused by other people being inconsiderate dicks :(

It currently feels like almost all problems that I could work on should not have existed in the first place and are only there because of us all being the way that we are.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by childintime »

avery42 wrote: post #110
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Also, the controls have changed: a single click doesn't pause the window as it normally does. Why change?? :/

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#144

Post by pfundstein »

t0astbread wrote: post #140
tartoran wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

No.. VLC can play most streaming formats & protocols from network sources. Open VLC, press Ctrl+N and paste the URL.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by zaarn »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #138
avian wrote: 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.

GDPR doesn't handle sending marketing mails and even in the EU it is entirely fine to send those by default as long as they directly related to your product ("assumed consent of consumer" is the key word here). Firefox does offer a complete opt-out last I checked that works entirely fine (never received a mail after unsubscribing to marketing mails)

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by MasterYoda »

asdff wrote: post #36
bentcorner wrote: post #8

PiP 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 is a little clunky and could use a good deal of polish. For example, you can only PiP one video, and controls remain in the tab with the video frame. PiP only gives you play/pause, no scrubbing or anything from the embedded player. The always on top is a feature for some, but can be a hindrance, too. That behavior should be a toggle for the user so they can use their tools how they like.

I really like Firefox PIP, but it's not perfect yet. I have missed the "timeline" so it would be easy to jump back if I wanted to re-watch the last bit. But I have noticed now that if the PIP window is active the arrow keys works for that which is great and it's also possible change volume with up/down arrow. So what a most miss now is that the PIP window remember its size and position from last time. Right now (on youtube) different resolutions gives different window sizes.
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