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> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.
> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.
https://w3c.github.io/picture-in-picture/
https://github.com/w3c/picture-in-picture/blob/master/explai...
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/10/watch-vide...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463402
https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5729206566649856
Looks to me like it is a standard that web devs requested (e.g. so you can scroll down YouTube or whatever and the video will keep playing in the corner), which Firefox chose to also make an end-user UI for.
What I'd like to see in a browser is a button which resets it to the UI from Firefox 1.0 [1] OS-provided window border and titlebar Standard menubar with keyboard hints, always displayed Five buttons: Back, forward, reload, stop, home Address bar and separate search field Status bar which shows me link URL when I hover a link [1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/mozilla-f... Personally, these days I…
Tick "Title Bar"
Drag & Drop the "search" widget aside your URL bar
Drag & Drop the Five buttons you mention where you want
You're welcome.
(for the status bar URL link preview on hover it's already the case by default)
> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.
I never understood this feature either. I can already make multiple browser windows if I want. Definitely not interested in PIP.
And it's just more convenient than trying to maximize the space of another browser window and making it stay put above other stuff. No extra chrome, no wasted inline space on the page. I can just take a Blender tutorial for instance and move directly above my Blender window and it obscures as little as possible.
Firefox is the only option for mobile webdev since it's the only mobile browser with devtools. However I won't use it as my main browser because of insanely frequent (and pointless) major ui changes. It messes with your muscle memory. This isn't beta software, is it?
In the last two years I only noticed: address bar can be on the bottom (user setting), open sites changed from tiles to a list. What other major UI changes have happened? (Or are you talking about desktop UI?)
> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.
I never understood this feature either. I can already make multiple browser windows if I want. Definitely not interested in PIP.
Firefox is the only option for mobile webdev since it's the only mobile browser with devtools. However I won't use it as my main browser because of insanely frequent (and pointless) major ui changes. It messes with your muscle memory. This isn't beta software, is it?
In the last two years I only noticed: address bar can be on the bottom (user setting), open sites changed from tiles to a list. What other major UI changes have happened? (Or are you talking about desktop UI?)
It's slow as molasses and loses UI events. I had auto-update turned off so I didn't use the new Firefox for Android until recently, and now I sincerely regret I updated it.
They also did something silly with trying to match your tap to closest link even if your tap falls squarely outside of the link's activation area. It's super annoying on sites with small text, like HN.
On the flip side, the UI being garbage made me stop browsing HN on my phone, so overall, perhaps that's an improvement in terms of my productivity.
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I never understood this feature either. I can already make multiple browser windows if I want. Definitely not interested in PIP.
Browser windows have decorations that take space. I don't use PIP often, but it comes in handy when I have limited screen real estate, like watching Netflix on my sidearm in tablet mode, while simultaneously doing something on the web.
> Firefox now supports simultaneously watching multiple videos in Picture-in-Picture. Is Adderall the new Aspirin? Or is there some WFH use here that I'm missing.
Sports immediately comes to mind - Some people I know who are really big into sports like watching/keeping track of multiple games at once.