1554389 - Introduce an "about:config" option to enable picture-in-picture toggle right from fullscreen mode

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Picture-in-Picture, enhancement, P5)

Description

[User Dderss]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Viewing a video in fullscreen with a necessity to enable picture-in-picture mode right away.

Actual results:

Since there is no way, for now, to enable picture-in-picture toggle right from the fullscreen mode, users have to first exit the fullscreen mode and then toggle the picture-in-picture mode, which is an excessive step that gets annoying really quickly and discourages users either from using fullscreen mode or picture-in-picture mode or both.

Expected results:

Users should have "media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.video-toggle.fullscreen.enabled" option in "about:config" so they could get rid of the unnecessary step and have an immediate way to switch from fullscreen to picture-in-picture mode, if they wish so. By default this option can be set to false if the accepted policy says it should be this way.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

ni Mike for PiP triage

Comment 2

[User Dderss]

Jared, did you notice that double-clicking on PiP video in FF 71 does not make PiP maximize any more?

Untile this "bug" about the ability to quickly switch between a small window and full-resolution fullscreen video is implemented, the double-clicking was the only way to kind of get what it is necessary. With the double-clicking-to-maximize now disabled, it all has become even less convenient than before: now you have to manually and slowly increase the size of the window by its corner to make it big.

Can you please add a media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.maximization-by-doubleclick.enabled option to "about:config" so it would be possible to bring it back?

Thanks in advance.

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Thanks, User Dderss. We'll be exploring additional controls to the Picture-in-Picture player window in upcoming versions of Firefox.

Comment 4

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

Confirmed as a valid enhancement based on Mike's reply.

Comment 5

[Ania]

This won't be on our radar anytime soon, unfortunately. The use case for this is fairly narrow, so I don't anticipate investment in this control unless we have unlimited resources in the future.