Float the current web video, its captions, or both in an always-on-top window.
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updated 14 Oct 2026
About Caption Float
Caption Float keeps a web video and its captions available while you work in another window. Click the extension icon to browse YouTube subscriptions in the side panel. Hover a YouTube video and click **Open floating window**, or press `Alt+Shift+P` on any supported HTML5 video page, then switch among video-only, caption-only, and combined layouts.
- Video-only mode with the active caption overlaid
- Caption-only mode with all available lines
- Combined video and transcript with a draggable divider
- Playback controls in the always-visible top toolbar
- Automatic scrolling and current-line highlighting
- Optional current-word highlighting when timing is available
- One-sentence-per-line caption layout
- Previous/next caption navigation and current-line looping
- Manual scrolling with a Back to current button
- YouTube caption prefetch with a visible-caption fallback
- Standard HTML5 TextTrack caption support
- YouTube channel subscriptions and latest videos in the side panel
- No developer-operated analytics, ads, or accounts
Caption processing stays on your device. Protected video, canvas players, cross-origin frames, custom caption renderers, and videos without captions may not be supported.
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