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Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by wonderlg »

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…

Things like this make it hard to take Firefox’ stand on privacy seriously. They keep making “mistakes” like this all the time unapologetically.

I marked the email as spam because that’s what it is.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by saagarjha »

knasmai wrote: post #81

I love PiP and it's def great in WFH situation where I can just have YouTube videos playing on the side. If anyone from Mozilla is reading this, one thing I wish Firefox did was to allow us to make it sticky to the corner like Safari does on MacOS. I think just throwing the PiP window to a corner and expecting it to be there is subtle difference but makes the overall experience much simpler. I don't having to decide…

Yeah, sadly Firefox doesn't use the native PiP implementation :(

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by chrysoprace »

I really love this feature and I hope that it receives more love and polish in the future. It's unfortunately unusable with foreign language videos as the subtitles don't pop out with the video. Not sure if this is due to the lack of such an API, or if the major video providers (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) simply haven't implemented it.

My other wishlist feature is to have rewind/forward controls natively in the PIP window.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by ta17711771 »

bvm wrote: post #109
tedmiston wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds potentially interesting. Do you have a specific use case in mind?

yeh! I like watching rocket launches from multiple camera angles! And i watch a lot of simracing with multiple streamers streaming the same race.

VLC

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by kevincox »

I wish it worked by using the regular web fullscreen API to pop out. Instead of going fullscreen it would just spawn a chromeless window that I can position anywhere I want and control using my regular window manager controls. As an advantage this would give sites full control over the content including having the full video (or other content) controls instead of just play which is what Firefox PiP gives you.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by hobos_delight »

kevincox wrote: post #115

I wish it worked by using the regular web fullscreen API to pop out. Instead of going fullscreen it would just spawn a chromeless window that I can position anywhere I want and control using my regular window manager controls. As an advantage this would give sites full control over the content including having the full video (or other content) controls instead of just play which is what Firefox PiP gives you.

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.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by suzakus »

chrysoprace wrote: post #113

I really love this feature and I hope that it receives more love and polish in the future. It's unfortunately unusable with foreign language videos as the subtitles don't pop out with the video. Not sure if this is due to the lack of such an API, or if the major video providers (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) simply haven't implemented it. My other wishlist feature is to have rewind/forward controls natively in the PIP wind…

Unless the captions are burned in, currently you cannot have the captions show up in the PiP video due to the API restrictions. It's mentioned in the proposal doc here: https://www.w3.org/TR/picture-in-picture/#security-considera...

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by kevincox »

hobos_delight wrote: post #116
kevincox wrote: post #115

I wish it worked by using the regular web fullscreen API to pop out. Instead of going fullscreen it would just spawn a chromeless window that I can position anywhere I want and control using my regular window manager controls. As an advantage this would give sites full control over the content including having the full video (or other content) controls instead of just play which is what Firefox PiP gives you.

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".

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by stuaxo »

The only thing is its easy to forget which tab it came from.

I put it on top and then on all desktops and change desktops with it.

Sometimes I come back and close some tab and it happens to be the parent of the video I'm watching.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by naktinis »

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 plans to support the Picutre-in-picture web API: https://www.w3.org/TR/picture-in-picture/.

See, for example, this bugzilla issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611831

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