Raysan Designs
A spreadsheet fills the browser while a small Float Video window in the corner plays a night scene with the subtitle I was out. With friends. and a control bar along the bottom.
The show plays in the corner, subtitles and controls included. Scene and subtitles are made up.

Picture-in-picture drops what matters

I wanted a show playing in a corner while I worked. Chrome has a floating window for that, but Netflix switches it off for its player. Where it does work, the window holds the bare video: no subtitles, no pause, no skip back. For anything with subtitles, that makes it useless.

A floating window that brings the captions

The extension moves the video into a small window it builds itself, so it decides what goes in.

  • One key. Alt+P or the toolbar button floats the biggest video on the page, Netflix included.
  • Captions come along. Subtitles are copied in as they change and scale with the window.
  • Its own controls. Play, skip, seek, mute and captions appear on hover; seeking goes through Netflix's player so it doesn't crash.
  • Back where it was. Closing the window returns the video to the page.
The same night scene in two floating windows. Chrome's picture-in-picture shows only the video. Float Video adds the subtitle and a control bar.
Same scene, two windows. Chrome's shows only the video; Float Video keeps subtitles and controls.

Shipped in a day, without the Web Store

I set the behavior and Claude wrote the code, tested against a mock page built like Netflix's player.

  • A download page on GitHub Pages with the zip and four install steps.
  • First install, first fix. Windows unzipped it one folder too deep, so the zip now unpacks flat.
  • Updates without a store. It checks GitHub daily and shows a NEW badge when a version is out.
The Float Video toolbar icon with an orange NEW badge, and its right-click menu showing Download update (v1.3.0) and Check for updates.
A badge, not a nag. Right-clicking the icon links straight to the new version.

Available for work

Let's make it happen

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