Available in [[Find what version of Firefox you are using|Firefox version]] 71 for Windows and 72 for MacOS and 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. __TOC__ =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. ;[[Image:toggle picture in picture]] 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: ;[[Image:context picture in picture]] 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. {for win,linux} ==Keyboard shortcut== To access via the keyboard press the combination {for win,linux}{key Ctrl}{/for}{for mac}{key Cmd}{/for} + {key Shift} + {key ]} or {for win,linux}{key Ctrl}{/for}{for mac}{key Cmd}{/for} + {key Shift} + {key }}. Firefox will attempt to launch the most relevant video on the page into a Picture-in-Picture window. {/for} =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”. ;[[Image:disable picture in picture]] =Enabling / disabling the Picture-in-Picture toggle in Settings= [[Template:enablep2p]]

Available in Firefox version 71 for Windows and 72 for MacOS and 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.

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.

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.

1. Find a video where you can see the blue Picture-in-Picture toggle.
2. Right click on the blue toggle.
3. Then click “Hide Picture-in-Picture toggle”.

Enabling / disabling the Picture-in-Picture toggle in Settings

If you don’t want to see the controls while hovering, you can hide that option in Firefox. (Note: You can still turn on picture-in-picture view by right-clicking a video.) Or you can use this to re-enable the control when you want to use it again.

1. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and then select Preferences or Settings, depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select Settings.
2. In the General panel, scroll down to the Browsing section.
3. Clear the check mark for Enable picture-in-picture video controls.

   

If you later want to re-enable the controls, simply add back the check mark.