Hide cursor on PIP fullscreen

[domske]

PIP in Firefox is awesome. One reason why I switched to Firefox. I also like to double click on it for fullscreen. In this mode, the UI disapears in a few seconds. Great. But could we also hide the cursor with the UI? Just like the native fullscreen (not PIP). Btw. I'm currently on Mac. But I would do this for Windows and Linux too.

[Jon]

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[Nacho_rodpe]

Hide the cursor when playing picture-in-picture

With picture-in-picture I mean when you're playing a video and you click the button to make the player a floating window. I think it would be good to make it more similar to other players regarding this functionality. Simply hide the cursor when a few seconds have passed since it was last moved.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Similar idea here: Hide cursor on PIP fullscreen 

@Nacho_rodpe if that aligns with your idea, we can merge the two threads together (and combine the votes/kudos) so the conversation stays focused in one space. Just let me know 😃

[Nacho_rodpe]

@Jonyeah we can merge threads. I don't know how to do it though, could you do it for me? Thank you! 😄

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[Jon]

@Nacho_rodpe yea no problem at all! Thanks for confirming.

[domske]

I would not hide the mouse cursor if the PIP is not in fullscreen. The current behavior is:

PIP not in fullscreen:
The UI and cursor are always visible if the mouse is on PIP window. The UI disappears when the mouse is moved out of the PIP window. This is ok for me. But we could also make UI and cursor disappears after certain time when the mouse is on the PIP window. But it must be 100% safe and stable. I don't want cases of unwanted hidden cursor. For me the fullscreen is most important for this issue. Other is optional.

PIP in fullscreen:
The UI disappears after a few seconds. The cursor stays visible. This idea ticket is about hiding the cursor with the UI and show again on move or fullscreen leave. Just like in the native player (html video). This could be also reported as bug instead of idea. I think this should be considered to implement without waiting for kudos (idk what this really mean and how much we need). Because it's a basic and expected behavior.

[Nacho_rodpe]

@domskeI absolutely agree with this. This is exactly how it should behave. Sometimes a site has a bad custom player, and I play it with PIP, so it would be good for it to have this behavior.