Video Pip Shortcut Chrome extension icon

Video Pip Shortcut

✨ AI-Powered
👥 68 users
📦 v1.10
💾 17.88KiB
📅 2025-07-24
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Overview

# Video PiP Shortcut — v 1.10
The simplest way to pop any HTML5 video into Picture‑in‑Picture on Chrome / Brave / Edge.

> **First major update since v 1.3**
> Everything below is *new or has been improved* in v 1.10.

🚀 What’s new in v 1.10
Area Added / Changed
Overlay button • Works on videos that appear later
• 3 icon sizes – Small 40 px, Medium 50 px, Large 60 px
Hover behaviour Choose how the icon appears:
➊ Show only on icon hover
➋ Fade until icon hover (default)
➌ Always visible
Positioning 9 presets (centre + 8 compass points)
Edge margin Quick dropdown (0 – 400 px) keeps the icon from hugging the edge
Keyboard shortcut Pick any key + Alt / Ctrl / Shift / Meta
(defaults to Alt + P)
Click feedback Optional zoom‑flash animation
One‑click PiP toggle Clicking the overlay toggles PiP on/off for that video
Settings popup All options live‑update from the toolbar popup—no page reloads
✨ Features
Overlay PiP icon on every HTML5 video
Instant PiP toggle – click the icon or use the global shortcut
Nine positions + edge margin presets
Icon size presets (small / medium / large)
Three hover styles (hover‑only, fade, always)
Custom shortcut – pick any key + modifiers
Click animation (can be turned off)
All settings sync via Chrome Sync and update live across tabs
✨ Future Improvements
**Better compatibility with websites like Reddit, Twitch, Kick, etc. (maybe even with streaming services)
**Performance improvements
🛠 Installation
Download or clone the repo.
Open chrome://extensions (or brave://extensions, edge://extensions).
Enable Developer mode.
Click Load unpacked and select the extension folder.
Hover any video → click the 🎬 icon or press Alt + P
(default shortcut—change it any time).

⚙️ Options
Open the toolbar popup (or right‑click → Options) to tweak:

Category Options
Overlay Enable / disable icon & click animation
Icon size Small • Medium • Large
Hover behaviour Hover‑only • Fade • Always
Position Centre + 8 compass points
Edge margin 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 100, 200, 400 px
Shortcut Any key + Alt / Ctrl / Shift / Meta
Settings are saved instantly and applied to every open tab.

🖼 Icon credit
Playback / PiP icon by
Uniconlabs – Flaticon
Licensed for free use with attribution.

Made with ❤️ by BEFICENT (with a little help from ChatGPT).
Feel free to fork, improve, and share!

GitHub Link: https://github.com/BEFICENT/pip-button

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Productivity/tools video productivity/tools

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Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
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