YabPress ⇧⌘P and the video on the page moves into a small window that stays above every app. It is the page itself, so the video never stops, and its subtitles and chapters come with it. ⇧⌘P again sends it home.
Leave a tab playing YouTube, Netflix, Twitch or another video site, and its video floats by itself. Come back and it returns to the page.
In the window#
Drag it anywhere, or pinch or drag its corner to resize it; it keeps its shape and remembers its place. The bar at its foot shows chapters where the video has them.
Live streams#
On a live stream the window says Live at the bar’s end, or how far behind you are: 5m behind. Click those words to go back to live. While you drag along the bar, a tip says how far back that point is. Paused, the count keeps growing, and +15 seconds wakes up only once you are behind. An ad inside the stream is muted and says Ad · muted; a stream catching up says so. When the broadcast ends it plays on as a recording, with its real length, and a radio that can’t rewind just says Live. The player at the foot of the sidebar says the same.
Tuck it away#
Throw it past the left or right edge of the screen and it tucks behind the edge, a sliver still showing, while the sound plays on. Point at the sliver to peek, and click it or press ⇧⌘P to bring it back.
When it floats#
Settings › Tabs › Floating video has three switches:
- When you switch tabs, on: from YouTube and the like, and every call.
- When you switch apps, off: the video follows you out of Yab.
- Flick it to a corner, off: a flick with two fingers sends it to the corner it points at.
The mini player#
With tabs in the sidebar, whatever plays in a tab you aren’t looking at sits at the sidebar’s foot, with its cover and title. Point at it for previous, pause and next, click it to go to the tab, or swipe sideways on it to move between tabs that are playing.