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Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by knasmai »

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 where exactly to position the video and keep moving it little by little. Also, if I push the Safari PiP video against the edge of the screen, it simply collapses. That's helpful when the video is blocking something I care about and I need to quickly hide it. Again, simpler experience than allowing free form movement for my workflow.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by suzakus »

recursive wrote: post #18
classics2 wrote: post #16

YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?

More info on this? I think that may only be for mobile apps. Does PiP even work on mobile browsers?

PiP works on Firefox (and likely Chrome, haven't tested) for Android. iOS just announced PiP support, but formerly on iPad had PIP. A quick google shows that PiP does work for Safari on iPad.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by mthoms »

mikewhy wrote: post #28
ashconnor wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It works better than the native support on OSX. A lot of videos I watch on Safari don't show the PIP button but work fine on Firefox.

In Safari, you can right-click the speaker icon in the tab or address bar, and there's a PIP option in the menu. Not as accessible as Firefox for sure.

Good to know, thanks. I suspect right click doesn't work when there's a transparent div over the video.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by actionowl »

I'm really surprised to see how many people appreciate this feature. I've tried to use it many times but I've found that when I'm watching a video I either want to give it my full(screen) attention (movie, entertainment) or have it in the background entirely (music, news, podcast.) I've personally not found a use for it and end up closing it after about 5-10 minutes.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

actionowl wrote: post #85

I'm really surprised to see how many people appreciate this feature. I've tried to use it many times but I've found that when I'm watching a video I either want to give it my full(screen) attention (movie, entertainment) or have it in the background entirely (music, news, podcast.) I've personally not found a use for it and end up closing it after about 5-10 minutes.

I like more than thought I would. I can keep going through tabs without losing the video.

The problem for me is it doesn’t have controls past pause and play. If I want to back the video up or skip it forward I need to go figure out which tab it’s coming from, and I can’t remember if I have to unpop to get controls. Windows 10, ymmv.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

#87

Post by harshalizee »

bentcorner wrote: post #8

PiP is such a great feature. I have no idea how easy/hard it was to implement but it feels nice to use. It does exactly what you'd expect it to do and nothing more. I use it while watching overwatch league games in the browser because it allows me to resize the popped-out video arbitrarily, instead of the site's embedded youtube player options of either tiny-window-in-browser or full-screen sizes (there is no theater…

A long time ago, I wrote the PIP feature for browsers on the very first version of Android based Smart TVs (Phillips TVs). It used Mozilla's Gecko NPAPI plugin ( their version of WebKit) and built on top of Opera, the only one at the time that would support funnelling broadcast TV data at the time. It was pretty challenging, but still way more easier than trying to build with Safari, chrome. I always wondered why this feature never really became mainstream until now.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by ourcat »

tedmiston wrote: post #67
forgotpwd16 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome has it for about two years now, since ver. 70. On a Youtube video right-click twice and click "Picture in picture".

I don't seem to have a "Picture in picture" option in the context menu on an arbitrary YouTube video on Chrome 84 beta on macOS. But there is a PiP button in the "hamburger with musical note" menu in the toolbar. It seems Google has an optional PiP Chrome extension as well. It looks like it just makes the button more visible. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/picture-in-picture...

First, right-click on a YouTube video. You'll see their custom menu appear first. Now, right click next to their menu (while still somewhere on the video frame.)

You should then see the browser contextual menu with 'Picture-in-picture' in the list of options.

Re: Firefox Picture-in-Picture

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Post by ourcat »

classics2 wrote: post #16

YouTube charges for this “feature”. How will that go over?

First, right-click on a YouTube video. You'll see their custom menu appear first. Now, right click next to their menu (while still somewhere on the video frame.)

You should then see the browser contextual menu with 'Picture-in-picture' in the list of options.

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