Switch videos to Picture-in-Picture mode with a keyboard shortcut or toolbar button.

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Version
1.3
Update
September 10, 2023
Size
125KiB
Developer
Category
Users
2,000+
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
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Picture-in-Picture Shortcut Extension

Picture-in-Picture Shortcut adds a keyboard shortcut and toolbar button for switching video players to the Picture-in-Picture mode in web browsers. The default keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Period (Command+Period on Mac), but it can be changed from the browser settings. The Picture-in-Picture Shortcut extension button in the browser's toolbar can be used to toggle PiP mode.

Google Chrome and other Chromium browsers have a built-in Picture-in-Picture button in the default media controls, but it isn't always available and requires multiple mouse clicks. Picture-in-Picture Shortcut also overrides sites that don't normally allow Picture-in-Picture mode, and attempts to add a play/pause button to the PiP popup. However, this may not always work for sites and players not originally built for PiP mode.

This extension is open-source under the GPLv3 license, the code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/corbindavenport/pip-shortcut
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Picture-in-Picture Shortcut", "version": "1.3", "author": "Corbin Davenport", "description": "Switch videos to Picture-in-Picture mode with a keyboard shortcut or toolbar button.", "homepage_url": "https://github.com/corbindavenport/pip-shortcut", "manifest_version": 3, "permissions": [ "activeTab", "scripting" ], "options_ui": { "page": "main.html", "open_in_tab": true }, "background": { "service_worker": "js/background.js" }, "icons": { "32": "img/icon_x32.png", "48": "img/icon_x48.png", "128": "img/icon_x128.png" }, "action": { "default_icon": { "32": "img/icon_x32.png", "48": "img/icon_action_x48.png", "128": "img/icon_action_x128.png" }, "default_title": "Toggle Picture-in-Picture Mode" }, "commands": { "_execute_action": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Ctrl+Period" }, "description": "Toggle Picture-in-Picture Mode" } }}
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User reviews

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Owen (ID: 00000034899f0a69) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/16/2022 Works well. There's also the extension: wipeyy - Controllable "picture in picture". In addition to setting a keyboard shortcut to toggle PiP, this extension also allows you to set another 3 keyboard shortcuts to toggle play/pause, and to skip forward / back 10 seconds, which even work outside of Chrome (if you individually set the keyboard shortcuts to "Global" rather than "In Chrome" in "chrome://extensions/shortcuts").

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Renan Bruno Bruch (ID: 000000ddad0dc17b) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/06/2022 Fixing a problem FOSS style! Download this and NOT the official Google extension for PiP. Clean code, clean extension, highly recommended.