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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.
This is something better solved at the window manager level. E.g. what if I want to have a PIP in my Xterm?
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This is something better solved at the window manager level. E.g. what if I want to have a PIP in my Xterm?
How does a window manager get rid of Firefox's browser chrome?
The problem is browsers have two layers of decoration: the WM layer (which tiling window managers tend to remove), and the internal layer - the tab bar, address bar, option buttons, borders, etc.
As far as I know, there isn't a way to remove all that without going full screen.
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This is something better solved at the window manager level. E.g. what if I want to have a PIP in my Xterm?
How does a window manager get rid of Firefox's browser chrome?
> 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.
For a serious answer, here's some links: 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 what…
Wow, Ctrl+P has now started to open the proper print-interface with a preview! I've helped loads of people over the years complaining about printing in Fx vs Chrome. It used to be so in Fx that selecting Print from the menu opened an interface for printing (ala Chrome), but pressing Ctrl+P just opened standard OS print dialog. So power users never saw the nice print preview.
> 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.
1. unusably small 2. full screen. Which often means unusably large (27" screen), especially for less-than-HD videos
At least youtube added at some time the cinema mode which allowed the video to occupy the whole window width, that is what I use most of the time. Still, PIP also has the advantage of removing the window decorations, so saving space. Also, they are floating on top of all other windows, which helps, but also occasionally can be annoying.
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?
Same with Firefox on Desktop, for that matter.
> 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.
I never understood this feature either. I can already make multiple browser windows if I want. Definitely not interested in PIP.
If there’s something I’m watching but not giving my full attention to - say an event hasn’t started yet or someone will be landing a rover on Mars in an hour - this means that I can either have a big chunk of my screen wasted or I can use PiP and have just the thing I care about using a quarter of the space but showing considerably more of the actual content.
Plus, it uses well-tested standard controls so I don’t have to play games figuring out whose kiddies don’t think about keyboard shortcuts or test their event handlers.