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I had it on for a few days but it's inconvenient. I don't pause videos before switching tabs if they're not playing sounds, this feature would turn pip on for them. I wonder if anyone has it on and likes it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a feature I would always want

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a great start, but needs some tweaking. Which I'm hoping is possible; there are a lot of cases where it's exactly what I need, and a bunch of cases where I don't want it, but I'm not sure whether it's possible to reliably distinguish those two cases. (e.g. I don't need it for music videos on YouTube, but for NotJustBikes videos it's great.)

Two realistic things that it really needs (and that I'm sure will come) are:

  1. The ability to disable it for a single video (i.e. if it PiPs up, pop it back down without pausing the video), and
  2. Activate when the window loses focus/gets covered by another window.

tl;dr Sounds like a feature I would sometimes want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a feature I would never want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

As long as I can disable it. Not all videos need to be seen all the time and I don't have a problem clicking a button when I want PiP. Most 'smart' features like this save 1 click here but require 5 more clicks to bypass the new behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's the biggest feature from Arc Browser that I've been missing, after switching back to Firefox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I know of a web conferencing software which has one video per shared camera and a shared screen video. How many automatic pop-out pip windows will I get?