How can we make Min Vid better?

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#34

For Youtube:

  1. Opening a video in the min player does not transfer the current time. It would be great to have the video continue at the same timecode. Min player back to tab should have the same feature.
  2. Sending a video back to a tab opens a new tab even if the original tab where it has been opened up from still exists. Instead, closing the video, but just keeping the original tab would be a better option.

I don’t know if you can manipulate the current playback position just like that. But it would be great to have a more seamless transition.

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#35

twitch.tv support would be awesome

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#36

Min vid test pilot doesn’t show the videos in a small window, the window shows gray.

#37

Since many users are asking for custom sites such as Twitch and Netflix, is it possible to have a ‘min vid’ type ‘custom’ page Test Pilot for user to be able to enter in custom URLS. There’s a tonne of Video based websites and I am sure if a borderless even transparent/opaque mini window for another URL were allowed, I’m positive it’d get quite a lot of usage.

#38

Really a very useful extension. I’ve been looking for this for some time. Great job!
Sugestions:

  • Resizable window (drag a corner)
  • Adjust opacity of the video window?
  • Show youtube settings button
  • It’s not working with youtube playlists.
  • The current resize window function does not save the settings when closing Firefox.
  • Run with all videos and not only on youtube.
    The return to flip button should continue the video on the same flip (do not open a new tab) and continue playing the video (do not re-start the video).
#39

I’m looking forward to it, I can very much understand the time it would take and am currently undertaking similar tasks on a smaller scale. From what I’ve seen already, I reckon you will do it justice - whatever your path may be.

#40

I would love to support more china based services! That would definitely be something to look for once we have a bit more resources (developers) hacking on this with me. I am however ALWAYS open to review contributions.

#41

Resizable window - it worked ok. Now, I can’t watch tutorials and working because windows is too small. I don’t wont change it everytime in settings.

#42

Suggestion:

When opening a min vid of a video that is already playing, start the min vid playing together with the bigger player.

#43

When allowing for resizing, an option to revert back to the default size would also be great :mag:

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#44

Would be great if the MinVid could be activated not only through youtube page, but also from a video frame which had been posted on a forum or is a part of a paragraph.

And I am sure it is not only me who hates the progress bar. Or any progress bar for that matter. Just make the timeline auto-hide.

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#45

I would like to be able to choose where the video pops up by default. For example, right now it pops up in the upper-left corner, but I always have to drag it down to the bottom-right. Just setting this up for each corner would be useful in my case, but I could also see something more fine grained such as specific coordinates or persistent positions across sessions (set it in position, close it, will pop up in the same position when you open it again).

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#46

As was mentioned before, twitch.tv support would be nice. Also I always misclick MinVid when try to launch video from right bar of youtube. It seize the half size of video image and exactly left side is naturally more likely to be hit if you’re going to switch video from there. Synchronization between main frame and MinVid is strongly required as well.

#47

Min Vid should seamlessy mirror the content being played (like Opera does) instead of loading it again.

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#48

I want to use YouTube’s default player controls.

It has all the options I need, especially the speed option. I very often speed up certain YouTube videos. I occasionally use the other options too, like video quality, and closed captions.

I don’t see a need for the controls you’ve replaced them with. I suggest either remove them, or at least add an option to disable them in exchange for the default YouTube player.

It would be nice at the very least for the controls to come back when you double-click to go full screen. The quality change option is crucial there.

#49

Option to hide the progress bar. It’s a little distracting.

Another reason to prefer YouTube’s default player controls/interface, it does this by default. It shows again when you move your cursor over the video.

#50

A way to add multiple playlists that are separate from each other.

When you click “Open Queue”, there should be somewhere there you can add playlist. So say, you could add your YouTube “watch later” playlist, or a series you might be watching, and switch between them.

#51

A way to like a YouTube video would be great.

It’s the one thing the default YouTube embed doesn’t have. I want to support videos I like by liking them, but when using Mind Vid, I have to ‘send to tab’, then like it, which is awfully inconvenient.

#52

Videos that can’t play because of copyright reasons or whatever should be saved somehow, maybe to a bookmark folder or something like that. Alternatively, just figure out a way to make any video able to play in a regular tab, play in Min Vid.

#53

Hi guys !
First of all it is very nice to have this feature in mozilla, very good job :slight_smile: Before today i was used an Opera web browser, but then I try firefox in 57 version and it is prety nice, but only with yours feature !
If it is possible, I will be very happy if you could add support for more pages and allow to resize video.