Picture-in-Picture Extension (by Google)

The keyboard shortcut does not work for me, meaning the only way to use it is to click on my extensions. After I use it on Youtube it leaves behind this weird overlay with buttons that don't work, and prevents me from using Youtube's buttons. This might be because I'm using the Comet browser. After switching from an extension I had on Firefox I was disappointed to see that there are no rewind/forward buttons, progress bar, or volume options on the miniplayer which I am used to. It is still usable, but I was able to find an extension that is exactly the same, but fixes both of the issues that I stated initially, and I would like to see more than just the bare minimum of a popup player.

Amazing tool wished I discovered this 10 years ago. One suggestion for improvment: Everytime the video window opens, it's by default back to the bottom right corner. Would be great it it would reopen in the same size and place as on last use (top right corner with double the size for me).

Crashes my entire pc whenever I use it usually within the first 5 minutes. I know its not a hardware or driver issue, and it's only ever while I'm using PiP. I can run 5 different adobe programs at once without issue but one new tab while a youtube video plays in the background borks it. Needs serious fixing.

It's fine. But I'd like to be able to make the PiP video smaller. Why do you limit how small it can go unnecessarily. (I want to be able to have it so small it's not distracting, yet be able to resize it if I need to - the resizing bit is easy and already works, I just can't get it small enough that it's not distracting). Also, the popup saying 'youtube.com wants to..' needs a little 'x' so it can be closed without having to make a decision (it should default to not having PiP if closed via 'x'). That box is annoying, I don't want PiP now, but I might want PiP on that site for the future, so I don't want to click 'Don't allow'. An 'x' would let me so 'go away' to the box, without any long-lasting side effects.

best!!!

One thing that I think would take this extension to the next level is for the closed capture to carry over with the PIP view as well.... that and the fact that rewind and fast forward can't be done from the PIP, are the only things that prevents me from giving this 5 stars. Thanks!

recent chrome update broke the plugin it crashes youtube now

I like it but there no subtitles available.

so good works on everything thank you

Every couple of months it stops working correctly. It's currently not showing what I'm actually watching on Hulu right now - a different video comes up and I have no other tabs or windows open while attempting this.

it actually freaking works unlike some other extensions

Does not display on top on UBUNTU OS while working with other applications

Would be perfect if it overlayed closed captions. It's really the only thing missing.

Stopped working on youtube.

If you use PiP mode, unfortunately the Play/Stop shortcut stops working. I use one of my mouse button as Play/Stop. It works perfectly as long as the media is not in PiP. Even after going back to normal the button still doesn't work, I have to refresh the page it to work again. Please fix this issue.

I enjoy this extension. But the new automatic feature is whack. I disabled it, but it still kept on making videos automatic. What's worse is that if I close the PiP window, the video stops, but I wanted it just playing in the background. Now I disabled the extension. Hopefully the next time I need it the feature is fixed.

Not properly working on ubuntu

good extension. Small suggestions: instead of go back and forward while (PIP mode) you can give button of 10 sec back 10 forward video. That would be helpful. Also when we hover the mouse cursor to the PIP window it fades the color too much , can you change is little more lighter and visibility of background video should be more?

Works great! However, it would be helpful to have a skip-ad button directly in Picture-in-Picture. Currently, skipping an ad requires going back to the main YouTube player.

This is awesome, I like that auto PIP update, great work.

actually really helpful

I’ve been using this extension for a while now, and unfortunately, one of the most basic features still doesn’t work properly: the CC (closed captions) function. No matter how I try, I can’t use it as intended. This makes the extension much less practical than it should be. I really hope the developers address this issue soon. Please make the CC feature fully functional—without it, the extension feels incomplete.

I use this every day and it works really well. Love the new rounded corners. Great plugin!

doesnt work

i wanted to use it for weverse lives and i can't :(

@Craig Jacobs, this is because captions don't come over to the PIP and google can apparently get in trouble with their TV service for not having captions for the hearing impaired. They have been working to solve this issue for about 5 years but their developers still haven't figured out the solution. Not sure why they are having difficulty, I guess Google has subpar developers.

Works fine. But Google owns YouTube. Why did they remove the mini player option just to create an extension for it on their own product that they removed it from in the first place?

this is very helpful!!

Functional, but far behind Firefox's built-in PiP feature. * forced always on top behavior isn't working on my system, easy enough to fix via autohotkey script but not everyone knows how to do that and they shouldn't have to * PiP videos in firefox show an icon for supported video content, this extension just has a hotkey and the only indication that the content you want to PiP isn't supported is that the hotkey does nothing * the only video playback control on the PiP is a play/pause button. no skipping forward/back, changing volume, etc. * things like youtube captions do not show up on the PiP - they just draw over a black background where the video would be on the page. you also can't use keyboard hotkeys with the PiP window active to control the page it's on. * mousing over the PiP window greys out the whole video to display a 'back to tab' option, which gets annoying fast when the video fades in and out every time the mouse cursor clips the corner of the video Hope to see this upstreamed as a built-in feature and given a lot more polish and feature parity with Mozilla's implementation. When you get any window layering issues sorted out, and if you don't need to access any playback controls or use captions, this does the same thing Firefox's PiP does, but those are some pretty significant missing features.

Here's what's missing: - Subtitles should be shown in the PIP, especially with YouTube videos. - Should show the progress bar of the video in the PIP

This build is causing glitches on RTX. Its a great feature to have, needs to be updated so that it works as it should.

when I watch in picture to picture mode and go back to YouTube screen the YouTube bar is glitch

Automatic PiP doesn't work for me, and it's annoying having to press the button to enable it. Also it lacks video controls in the PiP, there should be at least progress bar to let you move the video timestamp around and buttons could be bigger. Basically, it's way worse than the PiP feature in Firefox, which has automatic PiP and bigger buttons and progress bar and 5 sec go back/forward buttons and allows multiple PiPs!

5/5, but fire the person who auto defaulted the "Automatic picture-in-picture (BETA)"

this extesion is so bad, 1 star (satire)

This PiP extension works. But it does not support playback controls or subtitles

I was never into watching youtube videos in the background, but I am now.

Use full and simple to use

Window doesn't "stay on top" with new version of Chrome on Ubuntu: Version 139.0.7258.66 (Official Build) (64-bit). EDIT: You can click the video window and type ALT+SPACE and select "Always on top" as a workaround.

Basically I can choose to off/on the PIP mode. Now the auto PIP is annoying, not every time I need the PIP. I was listening music from YT and can't work on another tab of chrome. Please fix this...

Almost there. There's just one player where it didn't work otherwise it's legit.

fire

why do I need this if I already have a way of PiP

It's been bugged for several days. After I use it (on YT e.g.) and then later try to go full screen mode on YT: this PIP just goes over the top of YT window and messes up with all the buttons. I'm forced to reload the video on YT. It happens all the time. Chrome and the extension itself are up to date. What is going on? Fix it, please!

would be better if it showed CC (netflix)

Good, does what it says it will. Only (large for me) problem is when using with Netflix at least, it does not also show the subtitles of what I am watching, which is annoying if I am watching something in a different language.

Loved it :)

Alt+P shortcut doesn't work.

It's working on my windows 11, but not working on my Macbook Pro macOS 15.

The extension has stopped working for the past 2–3 days. I use it every day—thank you so much for this helpful tool! Please fix the issue, and if possible, consider adding a few more features: Skip ads Captions support Multiple Picture-in-Picture (PIP) windows PIP controls Additional feature suggestions (either in this extension or a new one): Split tabs (like split-screen view) PIP for the entire tab Thanks again for your great work!