FloatPlayer — Picture in Picture for YouTube

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YouTube video always on top: full player, A-B loop, speed control, volume boost. Watch YouTube while you actually work. One click and the video floats above every window — with the controls YouTube never gave you. WHY PEOPLE KEEP IT • Truly always on top — never falls behind your editor • Nothing restarts: the real YouTube player moves into the window • Speed 0.25–3x and volume up to 300% • A-B loop for practice, plus loop the whole video • Night mode that cuts blue light, and a sleep timer that really pauses • Sponsor segments marked in green and skipped automatically • Comments, live chat and recommendations without going back to the tab • Shorts in a vertical window that advances by itself • Shorts by keyword: type a word and watch only shorts about it • Video only — no cards, no shopping overlays, no clutter FloatPlayer keeps YouTube on top of everything else. One click on the button in the player — or Alt+P — and the video jumps into a small always-on-top window with its own controls. Write code, answer emails, edit a spreadsheet: the video stays visible above every other app and every other window. This is a real Document Picture-in-Picture window, not a popup. It never falls behind the window you are working in. THE VIDEO NEVER RESTARTS Most "PiP" extensions open a second player with the raw video file: you lose your place, your settings and your captions. FloatPlayer moves the actual YouTube player into the window. Same stream, same timestamp, the quality you already had, same captions, same playlist position, same watch history. Close the window and the player slides back into the page exactly where it was — nothing reloads, nothing buffers again. Ads are not blocked and not skipped: the extension plays by YouTube's rules. WHAT NATIVE PICTURE-IN-PICTURE CANNOT DO Chrome's built-in PiP gives you a play button and nothing else. FloatPlayer adds what is actually missing: - seeking — click or drag the progress strip, ±10 s click zones on the video itself, ±30 s buttons under it - playback speed from 0.25x to 3x on a slider - volume from 0 to 300% — from silence up to three times louder than YouTube's own maximum, for quietly recorded videos - A-B loop for practising a phrase, a riff or a dance move, and loop for the whole video - night mode in two strengths, which pulls the blue out of the picture for late viewing - a sleep timer that actually pauses the video, up to 12 hours - prev/next video and up to 20 recommendations in a slide-out column - chapter marks on the progress strip, with the chapter name under the cursor - Shorts support, including playing shorts by keyword, which native PiP refuses to handle at all - a genuinely clean window with no YouTube interface inside Everything hides until you move the mouse, so most of the time you see only the video and its title. While an ad plays, a separate white strip shows how much of it is left and the red one freezes at your real position. While the sleep timer counts down, every panel stays hidden even under the cursor — the way it should be when you are falling asleep. EVERYTHING ELSE THE TAB WAS FOR The window is not just a player. A side column brings across the parts of the page you would otherwise switch back for: - comments, loaded straight from YouTube and scrolling endlessly, with pinned and creator comments marked the way the site marks them - live chat for streams, in the same column - recommendations, and a watch queue you build from them yourself - the video title and the channel avatar on a plate under the panel, because Chrome's own window frame only ever shows the address SPONSOR SEGMENTS, MARKED AND SKIPPABLE To be clear: YouTube's own ads are never touched. This is about sponsor reads baked into the video itself. Segments reported by the SponsorBlock community are painted green on the progress strip, so you see an ad read coming — and out of the box they are skipped automatically, without you touching anything. Prefer to decide each time? Turn auto-skip off and a "Skip sponsor segment" button appears inside the segment instead. Choose which categories count — sponsor, self-promotion, like-and-subscribe reminders, intro, outro. Only the video ID is sent to sponsor.ajay.app — nothing about you, nothing about your browsing — and the whole feature can be switched off. LIVE STREAMS On a stream the panel shows a LIVE badge with a red dot. Fall behind and the dot goes grey with the exact gap next to it; one click returns you to the live edge. Seeking stays inside the DVR buffer, so you can rewind a stream the same way you rewind a video. SHORTS, PROPERLY SUPPORTED A dedicated button above Like opens a short in a vertical window shaped for 9:16 — no black bars, no cropping. When a short ends the next one starts on its own, and the arrows under the video — or the up and down keys — scroll the feed straight from the window. You can run Shorts in the corner of the screen like a television, without touching the browser. Its own little bar sits above the panel: a Like button, a switch for auto-advance, and a magnifier. The magnifier is the interesting one. Type a word, press Enter, and the window plays shorts about that word — cats, a recipe, a band, whatever you asked for. Forward, back and auto-advance then walk through that list instead of the algorithm's feed. Press Escape or click the magnifier again and you are back on the normal feed. THE WINDOW BEHAVES THE WAY YOU EXPECT Drag it from anywhere: press and hold on the video and move — the buttons stay clickable, so dragging never triggers a control by accident. It opens at the video's exact aspect ratio, snaps back to it after you resize by hand, and rebuilds itself for videos with different proportions, remembering horizontal videos and vertical Shorts separately. Video only, guaranteed: the YouTube interface inside the window is removed by a whitelist that allows the video, the captions and the loading spinner and nothing else. Shopping overlays, info cards, end screens and any overlay YouTube invents in the future simply cannot appear. There are two window modes, and the options page lets you pick either one: - "Full (with panel)" — the Document PiP window described above, with the control panel, the progress strip and the side column. Chrome draws a thin strip with the site address on top of it; that strip hides itself when the cursor moves away. - "Clean video (no strip)" — Chrome's native PiP: nothing but the video, no address strip and no panel of ours, only the system play button. For when you want the smallest possible thing on screen. Optional Auto-PiP (Chrome 120+) pops the video out by itself when you switch tabs, in whichever mode you chose. SHORTCUTS AND SETTINGS From any Chrome window: Alt+P opens or closes the window (⌥P on Mac), Alt+K pauses, Alt+J and Alt+L step 5 seconds. Inside the window: Space or K pauses, left and right arrows step 5 seconds, up and down change the volume — or scroll the feed when you are watching Shorts — digits 0–9 jump through the video, M mutes, < and > change speed. All reassignable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. The toolbar icon opens a small panel: what the current tab is doing, one button to pop the video out or bring it back, and the switches you change most often. The full settings page covers the window mode, Auto-PiP, SponsorBlock with auto-skip and its categories, Shorts auto-advance, compact panels, the panel on the YouTube page itself, the speed step and the volume ceiling. Changes apply immediately. The interface speaks 14 languages and follows your browser: English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and Indonesian. PRIVACY No accounts, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics, no ads. Nothing is collected and nothing is sent anywhere, apart from the video ID for SponsorBlock — and only while you leave that feature on. Permissions are the bare minimum: storage for your settings, and access to youtube.com plus sponsor.ajay.app. HONEST LIMITATIONS Better to know before installing than to be disappointed after: - Requires Chrome 116 or newer; older versions fall back to native PiP. - The thin Chrome strip with the site address cannot be removed — it is an anti-phishing requirement for every Document PiP window. It hides on its own when the cursor moves away, and "clean video" mode has no strip at all. - Transparency and click-through are not available in the Chrome API. - One PiP window per browser, and its position cannot be set programmatically — both are browser limits, not ours. - Seeking does not work during YouTube ads: the main video is not loaded at that moment, so there is nothing to seek through. - Keyword Shorts search takes the first page of YouTube's results — about thirty shorts — and stops on the last one instead of loading more.

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