Auto picture-in-picture

When you switch to another tab while a video is playing on a page, the video moves into a small picture-in-picture window and keeps playing. When you return to the original tab, the window closes and the video continues on the page. This works much like automatic picture-in-picture in Arc.

When picture-in-picture starts

When you switch to another tab, a video moves into picture-in-picture if:

• It's playing, not paused or finished.
• You've interacted with the page, for example by clicking play.
• It's large enough on the page. Small previews and animated thumbnails aren't taken along.

If a page has several videos, Lumno prefers the larger one with sound.

When you return to the tab

When you go back to the video's tab, the picture-in-picture window closes and the video continues playing on the page. If you paused the video in the small window, it stays paused when you return.

When it doesn't start

• Shopping sites and social feeds often play videos automatically. To avoid distractions, Lumno doesn't start picture-in-picture automatically on JD, Taobao, X (Twitter) or Weibo.
• If a site disables picture-in-picture through its policy, the browser doesn't allow it.
• While a web clip window is open, video picture-in-picture doesn't start automatically.

Turn it on or off

This feature is on by default. If you don't need it, turn off "Auto Picture-in-Picture" in Lumno's settings.

Firefox doesn't allow extensions to put web videos into picture-in-picture automatically, so this feature isn't available in the Firefox version.