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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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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

        edgesuggestions 

        that flag doesn't exist on Edge (yet) and it has nothing to do with the Global media controls icon in the toolbar. that icon is not an extension icon so it won't be included in that menu. it is part of the Edge itself.

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Nov 05, 2020
    Edge's PiP automatically resizes based on video orientation

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