[sverhagen]

With (some) television sets in mind that popularized (for, um, me at least) the picture-in-picture term as one channel of video on top of another channel of video, it feels weird that the term is here used when only a minimum of 1 videos is involved...

[aasasd]

You're witnessing etymology in work:

- the mechanism is about the same: the video stays in the corner

- the term ‘picture in picture’ is already familiar to people, from TVs

...so the term is generalized. Happens a lot. If the feature gets popular and the term sticks around, decades later people might search the web for ‘why is it called PiP when it's not what it does’. We can even imagine that zero videos may be involved by then (though unlikely―there are other terms for that.)

[dylan604]

I feel the same way. This is just a new way of windowing the content, not displaying 2 different sources in one screen.

I've seen a couple of this breaking the video out of the main layout, but not sure if it was this Firefox feature or not. I was pretty sure that once the video broke out of the normal layout, the original location of the video was replaced with ads playing without audio. I was immediately turned of by it.