If you don’t want to see the controls while hovering, you can hide that option in Firefox. (Note: You can still turn on picture-in-picture view by right-clicking a video.) Or you can use this to re-enable the control when you want to use it again.
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click and then select or , depending on your macOS version.Click the menu button and select .
- In the panel, scroll down to the Browsing section.
- Clear the check mark for Enable picture-in-picture video controls.
If you later want to re-enable the controls, simply add back the check mark.