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JoeDuffus
Brass Contributor
Oct 30, 2020

Picture-in-picture volume control and clickable icon

Chromium browsers used to have a volume control on the PiP window, and a progress bar. These have disappeared from many of them, except Vivaldi and Opera. Adding them to Edge would be a competitive a...
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HotCakeX
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Nov 03, 2020
Yeah Edge can definitely adopt some of the features from Opera
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JoeDuffus
Brass Contributor
Nov 05, 2020
Or Vivaldi. The design sense of both is similar, which is not surprising since Vivaldi was founded by the previous founder of Opera, after Opera was bought by a Chinese "consortium."

I use Vivaldi as my everyday driver because I like some of their "toppings" on Chromium, but I would switch to Edge fully if it did P-in-P better and offered the auto-shrinking sidebars that Opera does.
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    edgesuggestions
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 05, 2020

    JoeDuffus 

     

    pro are the size and controls

    but still not supported everywhere

    plus other things i wrote today.

     

    other problem with vivaldi: play button doesn't work always. we need to switch to the website and click play.

     

    here with opera 

     

    better size option

     

     

    and better controller and website support

     

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      JoeDuffus
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 06, 2020

      edgesuggestions You are right about the p-in-p not working all the time in Vivaldi, but it does so reliably for me (I don't use TikTok). 

       

      Adding volume control and progress bar to the P-in-P window just makes sense. Adding a hover icon for popping out the video would also be a great addition.

       

      Thanks.

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        edgesuggestions
        Iron Contributor
        Nov 06, 2020

        JoeDuffus yes i agree: scrollable position, audio, overlay button and full mode switch are the most important. even chrome extension is not able to do that ... ***/detail/picture-in-picture-extens/hkgfoiooedgoejojocmhlaklaeopbecg and it's ridicoulus we need to click a button on the toolbar (especially now with the chrome://flags/#extensions-toolbar-menu problem)

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      HotCakeX
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      Nov 06, 2020
      Edge's PiP automatically resizes based on video orientation

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