Most Picture-in-Picture extensions are either closed-source, bloated, or surprisingly complicated for something the browser already knows how to do.

At its core, Picture-in-Picture is basically:

const video = document.querySelector('video');
await video?.requestPictureInPicture();

That's the entire joke.

This project simply turns that built-in browser capability into a lightweight Chromium extension you can inspect, trust, and use.

✨ Features

• Add a Picture in Picture option to the page context menu
• Toggle PiP from the extension popup
• Automatically detect the most relevant video on the page
• Works across most websites exposing a standard HTML video element
• Open-source and fully inspectable

🧪 Tested Platforms

Platform	Status
Crunchyroll	✅
Prime Video	✅
Netflix	✅
YouTube	✅

These are simply the platforms I tested personally using Brave on macOS. The extension should work on most websites exposing a standard HTML video element.

🤔 Why?

If all you want is PiP for a video you're already watching, you shouldn't need to install a black-box extension and hope for the best.

This project takes the opposite approach:

• Open source
• Small and auditable
• No accounts
• No tracking
• No subscriptions
• No fake productivity features
• Just Picture-in-Picture

🚀 Usage

Open a page containing a video, then either:

Context Menu

Right-click anywhere on the page and select:

Picture in Picture

Extension Popup

Open the extension popup and click:

Toggle PiP on Active Tab

🔨 Build

Examples use Bun, but any supported package manager should work.

Install dependencies:

bun install

Create a production build:

bun run build

📦 Load in Chromium

1. Build the extension.
2. Open chrome://extensions.
3. Enable Developer mode.
4. Click Load unpacked.
5. Select:

Production build:

.output/chrome-mv3

💭 Philosophy

This extension is intentionally small.

The goal is not to become a media-control suite, productivity platform, AI assistant, browser operating system, or anything else pretending to be more important than it is.

The goal is to make Picture-in-Picture available quickly, visibly, and without surprises.

If it helps you avoid installing a sketchy extension, it has already done its job.