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flobro / flobro-chrome-app

Chrome app of Flobro, floating browser window
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/faaljkdndnfoagcmhedlmbgieoocemch
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Alternative native chrome PIP (Picture-in-Picture) #46

Closed ricardoboss closed 5 years ago

ricardoboss commented 5 years ago

Hi, first of all I want to express what a nice extension this is! Good job!

I think it's important to look at some alternatives (or at least know that there are any) before using an external tool or extension. This is why I want to highlight the native chrome implementation of this extension: Picture-in-Picture.

If you didn't know, chrome supports Picture-in-Picture natively for every <video> tag. In older chrome versions, you had to enable this feature by turning the chrome://flags#enable-surfaces-for-videos flag on first. Since version 70, this is enabled by default (if you don't have this feature, you need to update your chrome version).

When you right click on a <video> on a given website, you can click on "Picture in picture" and a new window playing the video opens and is always on top (even above other windows, like you would expect):

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This isn't a real issue, I just wanted to highlight other options instead of using an extension.

Thanks for you attention!

cornips commented 5 years ago

This is great, but only works for (HTML5) videos. If you want to have a webpage as PIP, you can use Flobro.