Swiping PIP window to the side doesn't work anymore

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A while ago, I was able to slide Picture-in-Picture (PIP) window to the side, to hide PIP window. In recent past, when I slide PIP window to the right or left to hide it, the video which is playing, stopps. The video resumes back after sliding the the PIP window to the main screen (image attached).

Can you please bring back this feature? This feature is available in Samsung Internet, and on other browsers.

@play_eze,
This behavior is inherited from Chromium but it does appear that you are correct. Tested with Edge, Firefox, Samsung and Kiwi browsers — they all continue to play content when the PIP screen is swiped to the right. Only Brave and Chrome paused content when the window was swiped.

I’ve opened the following issue for our developers to review: