Two monitors here, and I totally agree! I was using Brave right before this (I know, I know lol) and originally used a Chrome extension to replicate it. But it was super finicky and only worked like 60% of the time, so I ended up switching. Also a big YouTube watcher, like you.

To be fair (I’m also old enough to remember and even still have screenshots of OG chrome on my desktop) –

Chrome at the time was stupid fast. Like yes we had Firefox, but it was still the era where most people still clicked on the blue “e” and used Internet Explorer. I myself switched from Firefox when there was core feature parity.

OG Chrome was [comparatively] lean and dumb-fast. But you know, enshittification and feature creep. I also think that Google has changed as a company as time has passed, mostly due to new leadership (e.g. Sundar Pichai).

I switched back after a decade and don’t regret it. In fact, I love that Firefox (desktop) added automatic-PiP. If you’re playing a video, say on YouTube, and you switch tabs, the video continues in PiP until you go back to that tab. I love it.

“It’s never done open heart surgery before, but f it”

Bicentennial Man?