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PiP Controller

by jotenbai Β· Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 18 Oct 2026

Global hotkeys for YouTube & Bilibili picture-in-picture: toggle, pause/play, and skip back/forward.

Users
94
+42 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
2
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#87K
#72K among extensions
Version
1.2
updated 16 Sep 2026

Users

monthly, 5 months
04794May 2026Aug 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 94 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 5 months
012May 2026Aug 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 2 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About PiP Controller

🎬 Global hotkeys for YouTube & Bilibili picture-in-picture: toggle, pause/play, and skip back/forward. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ The problem Following a tutorial or guide while working in another app? You often need to pauseβ€”but that means switching to the browser, pressing pause, then switching back. That breaks your flow. ✨ The solution PiP Controller lets you control Picture-in-Picture and playback on YouTube and bilibili with global keyboard shortcutsβ€”without bringing the browser to the foreground. πŸ–₯️ One monitor β€” Keep the PiP window on the side while you stay in your app; use hotkeys to control the video. πŸ–₯️πŸ–₯️ Two monitors β€” Move or enlarge PiP on your second screen; hotkeys still work in the background. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ What you can do β€’ Alt+W β€” Toggle Picture-in-Picture (open / close) β€’ Alt+A / Alt+D β€” Seek backward / forward (step size configurable in the popup; default 5 seconds) β€’ Alt+S β€” Pause / play πŸ‘ Good for: learning from tutorials while practicing, following game guides while playing, or any time the video keeps playing but your focus is in another app. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Setup (important) 1. Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts 2. Find PiP Controller and set all four commands to Global (otherwise shortcuts won’t work when another app is focused) 3. Seek forward may show as β€œNot set”: Chrome reserves Alt+D for the address barβ€”click the pencil icon to bind it manually (or choose another shortcut) 4. Open a video on YouTube or bilibili, leave that tab open, then switch to your other app πŸ’‘ Click the extension icon for in-popup help, UI language (Chinese / Japanese / English), and seek-step settings. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Supported sites β€’ YouTube (youtube.com) β€’ bilibili (bilibili.com) πŸ“‚ Open source Source, feedback, and updates: https://github.com/jotenbai/picture-in-picture-controller πŸ”’ Privacy Settings (language, seek step) stay local. No personal data is uploaded to the developer’s servers. Permissions are only used to inject control scripts on the sites above and remember which tab has the active video.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+12+14.6%00.00
30 days+42+80.8%+10.00

Version history

3 versions recorded
1.216 Sep 2026
1.123 May 2026
1.019 May 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
19 May 2026
Size
23 KB
Languages
en, zh-CN, ja
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Extension ID
phnofgcdnmppllkfnejmjkjjdninbkha

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 3, likelihood 2
Permissions
scriptingtabsstorage
Site access
*://*.youtube.com/**://*.bilibili.com/*

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