YouTube video in background tab?

davestar_delux · 22 Jan 2013 at 19:45

Is there a way to make this float when I want to read other tabs? Like with VLC or Media Player on the Desktop

SourChipmunk · 22 Jan 2013 at 19:58

Just drag the tab to a blank area of your desktop, resize as necessary. Surf in new window.

davestar_delux · 22 Jan 2013 at 20:51

SourChipmunk said:
Just drag the tab to a blank area of your desktop, resize as necessary. Surf in new window.

My browser runs full-screen, I'm only on a small laptop. Surely there is some plugin that can do this?

sadbuttrue · 22 Jan 2013 at 21:03

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/split-pannel/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs/

lemoon · 23 Jan 2013 at 14:51

Firfox and Chrome both support more than one tab:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-expose/ackpfhlmgjdjlohhjmbacaajbmkkklnp?hl=en
But I usually download the YouTube videos offline with enolsoft on my mac, so no need worry about this.

davestar_delux · 23 Jan 2013 at 18:33

Yeah there is a lot of workarounds but would be best just to be neatest and use the least space possible, if the video just had a right-click stay on top of other tabs option... then I can drag it to the bottom right and have my reading tabs or OcUK taking up the rest of the space.

sadbuttrue · 23 Jan 2013 at 18:59

Youtube has a popout option when you right click the video.

Download always on top and use ctrl+space:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13784/keep-a-window-on-top-with-a-handy-autohotkey-script/

Or use the one line script in your own autohotkey file.