TL;DR
- Chrome for Android tablets could soon get a fix for an annoying bug with picture-in-picture (PiP) mode.
- The bug causes audio to continue playing even after the user closes the PiP window.
- Google developers have already created a fix for the bug, and it’s currently being tested in Chrome Canary.
If you use Google Chrome on your Android tablet, you might have encountered an annoying bug with picture-in-picture mode where audio continues playing even after the PiP window is closed. Fortunately, that behavior could change soon.
A new commit has been made to the Chromium Gerrit, aimed specifically at fixing this bug (via PiunikaWeb). According to the commit notes, audio playback should not continue in the background since closing a PiP window signals an “explicit user intent to stop playback.”
