User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

Create a video element.

Actual results:

Hovering over the video always displays a blue picture-in-picture button with no way to hide it or even style it.

Expected results:

Developers should have a way of not showing this blue button when it's not needed.

Otherwise Firefox imposes its own style and UI onto users and developers. The user can always right-click the video and choose picture-in-picture there. This bright blob really distracts the user from the main functionality.

I can propose some ideas, although don't have much preference:

• get rid of the PiP hover altogether and just leave the functionality in the context menu
• let users style the PiP hover in CSS according to their app/site
• let users disable PiP altogether with an attribute such as disablePictureInPicture (which Chrome does); although in this case you also need to disable it in the context menu as well

hello, users can set if this button should be shown or not through the "Enable picture-in-picture video controls" preference in about:preferences#general.

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Hi Philipp, I'm aware that users can do this. I'm talking about developers who would like to have control over the visuals of their product. I'll update the title to reflect this.

Here's one more suggestion that would be satisfactory: don't enable it by default, let it be opt-in. Then the default experience of using a web product would not be interrupted, but user could still tweak it to their liking.

This sounds like a request for the disablePictureInPicture attribute of the Picture-in-Picture API, so I'll mark this as blocker for bug 1463402.

Sebastian

Seems like this is more related to the picture-in-picture mode that Firefox offers for every video without even implementing the PiP DOM API.

Picture-in-picture is no doubt a cool feature but it is exactly what I don't want. I write educational solftware and need to control the position of the video window. Can you please provide developers with tha abilty to turn this feature off when it is not required?