Lock Picture in Picture to prevent accidental move or interaction

[sskodje]

I often use Picture in Picture to view things like Youtube videos or streams in a small window in the corner while playing games, and it works well, except for when the mouse enters the Picture in Pictur window and takes focus from the game, dragging the PiP window instead of clicking in the game. It would be really great to have an option on the Picture in Picture controls to lock the window in place, and prevent mouse interaction, apart from the control buttons themselves. I've attached a rough idea of what i mean.

[Jon]

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[asafko]

Hi! Thank you for submitting the idea!

We have PiP full playback controls on our immediate roadmap, but we might look into it after that is shipped.

[sskodje]

Thanks! I think this feature would become useful for many, since the trend is moving away from multiple monitors, and towards one big monitor/ultrawide, making it a bit more tricky to watch stuff while playing games in full screen.

[Seif]

This would be extremely useful as i've found out its really hard not to mess the picture in picture window up while gaming, i hope it gets added to firefox

[Leyzr]

Firefox logo Allow us to "lock" picture in picture?

Picture in Picture is an awesome feature and i love that Firefox comes with it by default.

However I do wish for one thing. So we can lock and "click through" the picture in picture, instead of our mice being able to click it by mistake when doing other things, such as grinding on an MMO or something.

Is there any way to get these options in the near future? It'd be great to play some games when watching a video during slow times! Thank you!

[Jon]

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

[WastedPotential]

I agree. I would really love to see a click through option to make it so that when firefox is not the center focus, clicking on the picture in picture will not pause the video, drag it, resize it, or close it.

This would really make it such an amazing tool for gaming and multitasking. I have trouble using picture in picture for this reason and I would really love to see this implemented soon.

Is there anything on the roadmap or is this a feature we could expect soon? The request is quite old at this point.