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This is the Picture-in-Picture API it implements: https://w3c.github.io/picture-in-picture/ I am surprised that the API is modelled to only allow watching videos in PiP, while the old and mature Fullscreen API allows to put any element in full screen. These should be analogous. I don't see a reason why I can run a in a small window, but not a a , etc.
People using tiling window managers like i3 or sway should get friendly with this feature. It allows me to "full window" (note: not screen) netflix/amazon/YouTube videos in a tile which was impossible to do without PIP.
For Chrome users, I was using the "Windowed - floating Youtube/every website" plugin to achieve the same effect. It also gives you the control UI, which PiP doesn't have yet.
To be perfectly honest, I didn't realize this was a Firefox feature. I thought it was just a new part of YouTube.
YouTube also recently added a similar feature that's more limited