Firefox 71 with Windows support for picture-in-picture appears

Mozilla releases Firefox version 71 and with it, users on Windows can use the picture-in-picture feature. This allows videos in the browser to remain in the foreground without other windows or tabs blocking the image.

Mozilla reports that users can check if the picture-in-picture feature is available by simply hovering the cursor over a video in the browser. A blue bar should then appear on the screen with which the function can be activated. Clicking that blue button keeps the video in the foreground in a smaller window, even if the user switches tabs.

This picture-in-picture mode works, according to Mozilla, “with all video sites” visited in the Firefox browser. The feature was already available for Android a year ago, with Firefox version 61, and the feature was also released for Chrome at the time. The picture-in-picture feature in Firefox 71 is currently only available to Windows users, but it will also be available for MacOS and Linux in January next year; that will be the case with the introduction of Firefox 72.

Firefox version 71 introduces a number of other improvements, such as notifications when the browser blocks cryptominers and improvements to the Lockwise password manager and the Enhanced Tracking Protection feature. Mozilla says it has blocked more than 1 trillion tracking requests.