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Picture in picture was a feature I didn't know I wanted all along. I often had a window open only playing a youtube video, having it be native to the browser a

Picture in picture was a feature I didn't know I wanted all along. I often had a window open only playing a youtube video, having it be native to the browser and always on top is such a great feature.

whoopdedo 7y ago
Open in new window. Resize window. Right-click title bar, select "Always on Top". App developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers. A good window manager would give you tabs for free, PiP (aka an always-on-top window) for free, dark mode for free. Instead OS devs go overboard in simplifying things to the point that app devs have to pay the cost of delivering what users want.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Win10 (the version I have at work) has removed "keep above" and made it application specific, OneNote has it, Word doesn't. It's crazy.
  - jamesgeck0 7y ago
    Windows has never had a universal "keep above" menu option.
- mFixman 7y ago
  That's actually the issue. Most operating systems don't have the windowing capabilities of most Linux distributions. I'm stuck on a Mac, where I cannot always on top, hide the title bar, or alt-drag windows to move them.
  - mikewhy 7y ago
    macOS also has it's own PiP mode, which is nicer than what Chrome has. I wonder if FF is using their own implementation as well.
    - saagarjha 7y ago
      It's a custom implementation, sadly :(
- mikewhy 7y ago
  Take YouTube for example. It's difficult to resize the window so it's _just_ the video (they size things so you always see the video + title). With a proper PiP mode, that's no longer an issue.
- cerberusss 7y ago
  > app developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers On the other hand, Firefox keeps the close button for tabs on the right, even in macOS where every close button is on the left. Thankfully, I've found a bit of userChrome that corrects this, as a workaround.

whoopdedo 7y ago

Open in new window. Resize window. Right-click title bar, select "Always on Top". App developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers. A good window manager would give you tabs for free, PiP (aka an always-on-top window) for free, dark mode for free. Instead OS devs go overboard in simplifying things to the point that app devs have to pay the cost of delivering what users want.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
Win10 (the version I have at work) has removed "keep above" and made it application specific, OneNote has it, Word doesn't. It's crazy.
- jamesgeck0 7y ago
  Windows has never had a universal "keep above" menu option.
mFixman 7y ago
That's actually the issue. Most operating systems don't have the windowing capabilities of most Linux distributions. I'm stuck on a Mac, where I cannot always on top, hide the title bar, or alt-drag windows to move them.
- mikewhy 7y ago
  macOS also has it's own PiP mode, which is nicer than what Chrome has. I wonder if FF is using their own implementation as well.
  - saagarjha 7y ago
    It's a custom implementation, sadly :(
mikewhy 7y ago
Take YouTube for example. It's difficult to resize the window so it's _just_ the video (they size things so you always see the video + title). With a proper PiP mode, that's no longer an issue.
cerberusss 7y ago
> app developers spend a lot of their time making up for the poor decisions of OS developers On the other hand, Firefox keeps the close button for tabs on the right, even in macOS where every close button is on the left. Thankfully, I've found a bit of userChrome that corrects this, as a workaround.