How To Use Chrome's Picture-In-Picture To Watch A Video While Browsing

Chrome picture in picture mode is the ideal tool for those who wish to multitask. It allows you to watch videos while attending to other tasks at hand.

You can imagine it as a YouTube window shrinks to a fraction of its normal size and locates at one corner of your screen.

YouTube picture in picture Chrome can be achieved in two ways. First is the right-click one. On YouTube, when you right-click once, its own menu shows up, but if you do so again, you will see Chrome’s menu, which shows the picture in picture option.

If you choose the mode, the YouTube window will shrink and you get to move it around as you please.

Chrome picture in picture is not perfect. All you can do with the miniature tab is to enlarge it or pause what is playing. Other functions like controlling the volume or captions are absent.

One of the disadvantages of Chrome picture in picture mode is that it only works well on YouTube and not for other platforms like Vimeo, Netflix, or Facebook.

If you need more than what the native mode can offer, it is time for the picture in picture chrome extension.

In the Chrome store, browse and download the extension. It will appear as an icon at the right corner of Chrome. When there is a video in playing, click on the icon and it will do exactly what the picture in picture mode does, which is to shrink the video and put it at a corner of the screen.

So there you have it, the guide on how to use Chrome picture in picture in two ways. No more treating videos like podcasts.

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