Really nice tool. I will try using it daily.
"Smart Positioning" is not perfect yet, but for me, it's the killer feature.
This is way better than what any window manager can do.
Show HN: A browser extension to use picture-in-picture with any website
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#42How is this different than using the window manager in Linux?
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#43How is this different than using the window manager in Linux?
I'm assuming by "using the window manager in Linux" you mean you can manually put windows always-on-top.
Three reasons this is different: 1. The window is actually not on top of every window - it's only top of your browser. It's "attached" to your browser window, same way a real PiP would. 2. It's less clicks and also positions the window automatically for you. 3. It's cross platform. Windows doesn't have an easy user-accessible way to enable always-on-top.
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#44I've been using this for a long time and it's been very useful. https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
That looks amazing. I wish there was something like this for macOS.
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#45I've been using this for a long time and it's been very useful. https://github.com/LorenzCK/OnTopReplica
That looks amazing. I wish there was something like this for macOS.
Hmm, seems like Hover[0] might be the answer.
[0]: https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/hover-floating-window-image/id...
Re: Show HN: A browser extension to use picture-in-picture with any website
#46Hello everybody! I created a browser extension called TabFloater, which can replicate the picture-in-picture functionality with any website. It moves a chosen tab into a smaller window, which is going to remain always on top, so you can interact with both websites at the same time. This is my very first post on HN. I have been working on this pet project for a bit over a year now. The motivation for it was simple: be…
Your uninstall feedback form is broken, on Firefox at least.
What I was going to give feedback: An ability to locate the bin file from settings in the extension would be good, as I can't modify the registry.
Re: Show HN: A browser extension to use picture-in-picture with any website
#47Hello everybody! I created a browser extension called TabFloater, which can replicate the picture-in-picture functionality with any website. It moves a chosen tab into a smaller window, which is going to remain always on top, so you can interact with both websites at the same time. This is my very first post on HN. I have been working on this pet project for a bit over a year now. The motivation for it was simple: be…
Your uninstall feedback form is broken, on Firefox at least. What I was going to give feedback: An ability to locate the bin file from settings in the extension would be good, as I can't modify the registry.
The uninstall form uses Google Analytics to record answers. I suspect you've configured your browser to block tracking content, which is why it doesn't work for you. Thanks for letting me know this - I've updated the error message so that other people would understand why it doesn't work.
As for your actual feedback: there is no way to achieve this from the extension. The extension doesn't know where the companion executable is - it is the browser that connects the two applications.
However, you can enable debugging, then you can open the companion log file, which will contain the path to the executable.
Out of curiosity, why do you need to know the location? What were you trying to change in the registry? Is this the reason you uninstalled it? Maybe I can help.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your uninstall feedback form is broken, on Firefox at least. What I was going to give feedback: An ability to locate the bin file from settings in the extension would be good, as I can't modify the registry.
The uninstall form uses Google Analytics to record answers. I suspect you've configured your browser to block tracking content, which is why it doesn't work for you. Thanks for letting me know this - I've updated the error message so that other people would understand why it doesn't work. As for your actual feedback: there is no way to achieve this from the extension. The extension doesn't know where the companion ex…
Thanks for explaining. Sorry, I never said, I need to use the portable companion but don't have registry access (which is fine). I only uninstalled the addon as couldn't use companion. Thanks.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The uninstall form uses Google Analytics to record answers. I suspect you've configured your browser to block tracking content, which is why it doesn't work for you. Thanks for letting me know this - I've updated the error message so that other people would understand why it doesn't work. As for your actual feedback: there is no way to achieve this from the extension. The extension doesn't know where the companion ex…
Thanks for explaining. Sorry, I never said, I need to use the portable companion but don't have registry access (which is fine). I only uninstalled the addon as couldn't use companion. Thanks.
Hmm, I haven't thought of this use-case. I think this could also work if you put the registry entries into HKEY_CURRENT_USER (as opposed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).
If you'd like to experiment, you can change the register script to put entries into HKCU instead of HKLM. It might just work!
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#50Was also disappointed to find that browser picture in picture support was limited to a video element. Wish I could just use it on any element, like with fullscreen. I can imagine some complexity as explained. But for example it seems reasonable to me to limit browser panel/PiP support to a single element at a time like it is now for video to avoid some of that. This looks interesting!
> Was also disappointed to find that browser picture in picture support was limited to a video element. Wish I could just use it on any element, like with fullscreen. I have not yet experimented, but perhaps a video element can be styled or injected with HTML/CSS to present non-video content.
You can hook up a canvas element to be a source for a video element. But that's not very useful to me.