Switch to disable picture-in-picture / video popout icon
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@dracho The feature is very new. There is no option to disable it yet. This thread is only 9 days old.
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I also think it should be disabled by default.
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Agree. I also need the option to disable this. Horrible icon.
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Are there any news from devs about this 'feature'? Will they add button to disable it in webbrowser?
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Why on earth would you add a pervasive feature like this without an option to remove it. First you mess up the ctrl+enter autocomplete, now you do this. Firefox is calling. This is moronic.
I have no problem with anyone adding features, people wanted this, so by all means add it... but let me turn the bloody thing off.
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+1 for giving an option to disable this. It's beyond annoying
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+1 for a way to disable it. I like the feature but It's kind of bugged. Like others mentioned it takes too much space for smaller video players/gifs and I've noticed that it is somewhat buggy. When I watch youtube in full screen sometimes it doesn't hide and I have to move the cursor to the corner of the screen to hide it.
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I like the feature but it is rather useless in fullscreen so I would add an option to "disable the floating button in fullscreen only, if possible.
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+1 for an option to disable this please.
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Added my vote. That button is annoying when watching videos in full screen.
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Guys... when you add a new feature, make it optional. It's really not that hard, because you literally JUST added it.
Even if it's a hidden option in a config page somewhere, just make it optional.
I don't like this button and it's only going to generate a bunch of Vivaldi users saying "what the hell is that doing there" when they first see it (plus, I don't see the point of it at all).
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@dfkt said in Switch to disable picture-in-picture / video popout icon:
Please add a setting switch to disable the picture-in-picture / video popout overlay icon.
The icon can be quite irritating in certain situations. Especially stuff like short "GIFs" (actually MP4s) on Twitter/Tweetdeck:
Most importantly, it doesn't disappear in fullscreen sometimes!
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@Pesala This "feature" should not have shipped without a disable flag. This dumb button is extremely invasive in the video view and not having a way to turn it of is unconscionable when considering the goal of being as customizable as good Opera was.
Who signed off on this? Why was this considered a key feature? No offense to PIP users but that is the extreme minority, so why this huge button that cannot be changed?
Don't make excuses that it's "new". FIX IT.
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@gaspump Don't blame me; I do not work for Vivaldi.
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I'll go ahead and downgrade it. It took a bit of time but previous versions are available from here
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@Opera12Fever
Please don't downgrade to older versions of Vivaldi. It can result in far more serious issues in the future.
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A couple of points about this feature:
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I never understood why some people go absolutely batshit about the ability to put a video outside the browser, see a different browser do it and then decide Vivaldi is utterly worthless and stupid unless they do the exact same (IMO) pointless function (on the rare occasions I wanted to do something similar, I've always been able to play video in a small window in a corner of the screen and continue to browse in another resized window taking about 2/3 of the screen... and have been doing that since the 1990s!)
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I understand why, given the relentless onslaught of (newly joined) people posting to demand the option, the devs decided to implement it, but why drop a buggy version in a snapshot and then release the same buggy version as a publicised feature of a new stable build just a few days later?
We could immediately tell when it arrived in the snapshot that:
a) it was unpopular with a majority and only popular with a vocal minority
b) no-one thought it was ready for release!
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