Compare Chrome extensions: Picture in Picture - Floating Player vs Picture in Picture Button

Stats Picture in Picture - Floating Player Picture in Picture - Floating Player Picture in Picture Button Picture in Picture Button
User count 792,393+ 2,000+
Average rating 4.81 5.00
Rating count 153 3
Last updated 2023-05-24 2020-09-21
Size 119.81K 17.82K
Version 1.0.8 1.0
Short description
Watch videos in a floating player outside the browser window or on top of any other windows. Picture in Picture mode for web! Universal Picture in Picture button/shortcut for Chrome.
Full summary

Continue watching your videos on picture-in-picture mode while doing something else! floating video.

What is the picture-in-picture (PiP) mode and how it will be useful for you? This mode lets you play any video in picture-in-picture (PiP) mode, and it works on all platforms. PiP is a popped-out, always-on-top video player that floats on top of other windows.

You can also reposition it along the screen border while you continue to surf the internet.

Picture-in-picture - (floating player) - allows you to watch videos in a floating window (always on top of other windows) so you can keep track of what you are watching when interacting with other sites or applications.

Just click on the floating player icon to display the video player on YouTube or any other websites on the web. This window will play the video on all pages of the browser on which there is a video resource.

PiP mode is a popped-out, always-on-top video player which floats on top of other windows. Bring the PIP mode to any HTML5 video player on any website.

☑️ Play video in floating popup window. ☑️ Resize floating video pop-up.

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This extension adds a universal Picture in Picture button and keyboard shortcut to Chrome, powered by the Picture in Picture Web API introduced by Google in 2018.

Features:

  • keyboard shortcut
  • PiP element automatically closes on fullscreen
  • works on any webpage with a video element*

The keyboard shortcut is Alt + P (⌥ + P on macOS) by default, just like in the original Picture in Picture extension by Google. You can change it to your liking or disable it altogether by going to chrome://extensions/shortcuts. You can also toggle Picture in Picture by clicking on the extension icon.

*Limitations:

  • doesn't work on extension pages such as Alternative Player for Twitch.tv
  • doesn't work on video elements in inline frames such as VRV

It the extension doesn't seem to work as intended, feel free to start an issue at the GitHub below.

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