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A comment on Firefox 72.0.

Re:Firefox 72.0 by saturn_vk on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:40AM (#21980270)
It doesn't seem like you can set the pip window to be sticky across all desktops. That's unfortunate and a bit unusable
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Re:Firefox 72.0 by Spivak on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:01AM (#21980503)
In GNOME you can right click the pip window and enable "Always on Visible Workspace" and "Always on Top" to get the same effect.
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Re:Firefox 72.0 by mishac on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:54AM (#21980419)
What platform are you on? I am on Ubuntu+GNOME and I was able to right click on the pip window and set "Always on visible workspace" with no issue.
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Re:Firefox 72.0 by saturn_vk on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:25AM (#21980764)
Yep. On gnome you can set it. That doesn't appear to be the case on osx. And it seems that for PIP, being sticky should be the default. I'm currently keeping safari open just to have a pip sticky window of youtube.
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Re:Firefox 72.0 by Siecje on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:43AM (#21980306)
What is the pip window?
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Re:Firefox 72.0 by adventured on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:47AM (#21980346)
Picture in picture window.

It can create, for example, a pop-out video overlay, which can be moved around and resized. It then sits over top of the other content on the page (and remains over other tabs) and will remain fixed as you scroll down the page and similar. On a site like YouTube, you could pop the video out and proceed to scroll down and interact with comments while the video plays to the side or above.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-f...

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