About Picture-in-Picture in Firefox
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Available in Firefox 71 for Windows and 72 for MacOS / Linux, the Picture-in-Picture feature allows you to pop videos out of their webpage into a floating, always on top, window so you can watch while continuing to work in other tabs. You can move the Picture-in-Picture window around the screen and resize it to your liking.
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Using picture-in-picture
Toggle
The Picture-in-Picture toggle appears when you hover over videos with the mouse cursor. It is a small blue rectangle that slides out when you hover over it. Clicking on the blue rectangle will open the underlying video in the Picture-in-Picture player window.
This feature is designed to work on most web videos. Though some videos will not display the blue toggle hovering over it. We only show it for videos that include an audio track that are also of sufficient size and play length.
Context Menu
Another way to access Picture-in-Picture is via the context menu. If right-click on a web video, you’ll sometimes see the media context menu that looks like this:
There’s a Picture-in-Picture menu item in that context menu that you can use to toggle the feature.
Many sites, however, make it difficult to access the context menu for web videos. YouTube, for example, overrides the default context menu with their own.
You can get to the default native context menu by either holding Shift while right-clicking, or double right-clicking.
Keyboard shortcut
To access via the keyboard press the combination Ctrlcontrol + Shift + ] or Ctrl + Shift + }. Firefox will attempt to launch the most relevant video on the page into a Picture-in-Picture window.
Player window
The Picture-in-Picture window also gives you the ability to quickly play or pause the video — hovering the video with your mouse will expose that control, as well as a control for closing the window, and closing the window while returning you to the tab that the video came from.
Disabling the Picture-in-Picture toggle
If you prefer to disable the blue toggle, so it does not appear over top of videos there are two easy ways to do that. Either on a site that has a supported video or in the Settings menu.
- Find a video where you can see the blue Picture-in-Picture toggle.
- Right click on the blue toggle.
- Then click “Hide Picture-in-Picture toggle”.
Enabling / disabling the Picture-in-Picture toggle in Settings
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