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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by Alifatisk on Saturday March 30, 2024 @07:51AM (#39873963)
I wish there was a way to fully disable the picture-in-picture feature so it never appears on any website again.
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by Zetobal on Saturday March 30, 2024 @07:57AM (#39874006)
It's a giant checkbox in the browsing settings...
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by Alifatisk on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:35AM (#39874241)
You mean the "Enable picture-in-picture video controls"?
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by Zetobal on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:24AM (#39875180)
https://mzl.la/3BWkMKs
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by echoangle on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:44AM (#39875367)
That only affects the controls of the PIP mode, the question was how to completely disable PIP mode. A sibling comment posted a about:config setting to do this.
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by logro on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:57AM (#39874418)
I occasionally use that feature. But absolutely every single time is by mistake and it has negative effects on my mood. Still love Firefox though.
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by extraduder_ire on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:27AM (#39874642)
I managed to somehow disable the button that appears on the video without totally disabling the feature. I find it a lot more ergonomic to hit ctrl+shift+] to toggle it.

I pretty much only use it for videos yt-dlp + mpv can't open though.

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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by schiffern on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:29AM (#39875762) 

  >I managed to somehow disable the button that appears on the video without totally disabling the feature
Not too hard really. This seems to do it:

media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.enabled -> true

media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.video-toggle.enabled -> false

media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.keyboard-controls.enabled -> true

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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by steve_rambo on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:14AM (#39874553)
about:config → media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.enabled → false
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by Alifatisk on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:28AM (#39874652)
Oh thanks, I was always looking in about:preferences but found nothing except toggling the video controls for the picture-in-picture!
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by dylan604 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:37AM (#39875295)
I really enjoy this as a feature. There are many times that I don't need a video full frame, but don't want to see the rest of the website page either (I'm looking at you YouTube). I can just pop the video out, and even shrink its size, and then go back to whatever else I need to be looking at.

Sadly, there are so many videos out there that do not need to be videos, yet that's how they are presented for sometimes rational reasons on the "creator's" part.

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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by ddejohn on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:38AM (#39881737)
Whoa, really? I use it all the time and love it. Why do you dislike it so much?
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Re:Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practi... by Alifatisk on Monday April 01, 2024 @07:05AM (#39892796)
I disliked it because when I click on another link I expect to see the new webpage and nothing else. Instead, I have the video continuing playing on the side so I have to manually close it aswell. That combined with the video player taking up unnecessary space for me, it's even worse on the phone, some picture-in-picture players eat up 1/4 of the screen.
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