What if I tell you that from this day onwards, multitasking on Chrome will be a cakewalk? Wouldn’t that be great? The best way to get rid of the switching between Chrome tabs and windows, and multitask in the strict sense of the term is to have a Chrome tab or window always on top so that you don’t need to navigate away from the tab you are working on. Picture in Picture Viewer for Chrome lets you do just that.

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To make the active window stay on top, press the assigned keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Spacebar. Note: Press the shortcut again to disable the script. Method 4: DeskPins. DeskPins is another small system utility tool that provides you pins that you can grab and use to keep any window on top of all other windows. Simply, download and install. Bug ID 27430873: Add 'Stay in Front' option to Terminal windows. Apple's Activity Monitor app similarly has the option Keep CPU Windows on Top that floats the small CPU graphs on top of all other apps' windows.

• Windows 10 normally puts your laptop into low-power sleep mode when you close the lid. This can be a problem when hooking your laptop up to an external monitor. Use the Control Panel—not Windows 10’s Settings app—to change this behavior.
• Window On Top is a minuscule Windows application that lets users set any window to stay on top of others at all times. The application doesn’t have a GUI and quietly resides on the system tray without intervening with your workflow.

After you have installed the extension from the Chrome Web Store, you will have to enable the pop-out panel support in Chrome. To do it, open a new tab, type in chrome://flags/ in the address barand press enter. This section is just like Labs for Gmail, a hub for experimental features that are not enabled by default.

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Here look for Enable Panels and enable the option. Having done that, restart the browser for the changes to take effect. Make sure you save everything you were working on the browser before restarting it.

Now open a web page that you want to view in the popup frame and copy its link to the clipboard. Then click on the Picture in Picture Viewer extension, paste the URL and press the enter button to open up the window. You will see a new chrome window pop up on the bottom-right of the screen. This particular window will always be on top of other windows even when you are not working on Chrome.

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This method can be used on many websites to ease multitasking. I personally use the feature to watch YouTube videos and web episodes while working. Facebook chat works great too when opened in mobile view and the comfort of Google hangout without actually sticking to one single tab really increases productivity.

The possibilities are endless. You can also play a game of chess while working on emails or have a code snippet open while working on your project.

Cool Tip: Always try to work on mobile optimized websites in the Picture in Picture extension, if available. The extension supports word-wrap features for easier access to data while multitasking.

For quick access, you can also use the hashtag in front of the URL and directly launch the website in the frame. So, type www.youtube.com#panel in the address bar to open YouTube in the ‘always on top’ window. You can also bookmark this link to open it directly next time.

Currently there is no way a user can change the size of the panel and drag it to another location on the screen. You can open more than one pane at a time, but opening three to four of them will use the entire bottom real-estate depending upon the size of the screen. So that’s not recommended.

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Here’s a video detailing the entire process.

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Picture in Picture Viewer extension was something I’ve been waiting for for quite some time. With online services now evolved to replace our desktop tools, the ability to work on them simultaneously just like different programs on the desktop is a must-have. However, this is still experimental and likely to get better with time.

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A lot of Enhancer for YouTube™ users have asked me to add an option to make the pop-out player stay always on top of other windows, but it's not possible because browser extensions have limited capabilities so I'm gonna show you how you can easily do it using AutoHotkey, a popular free and open source software for Windows.

How to install and use AutoHotkey

First you need to download AutoHotkey so go to the download page and click the 'Download AutoHotkey Installer' button. Once downloaded, execute the file and select 'Express installation'. If you select 'Custom installation' it is recommended to select one of the 'Unicode' versions. Once the installation is complete click on 'Exit' to close the 'AutoHotkey Setup'.
Now follow these steps to create the script that will be used by AutoHotkey:

• On your desktop, right-click on an empty space and select 'AutoHotkey Script' inside the 'New' menu.
• Give the script a name (e.g. AlwaysOnTop) and save it.
• Right-click on the script and select 'Edit Script'.
• Replace the content of the file with the following code:
  #Space:: Winset, AlwaysOnTop, Toggle, A
• Save the file.

That's it! Now double-click the script to run it then select the window you want to keep on top of the others and press W (Windows icon key) and Spacebar on your keyboard. When you want to restore the default behavior select the same window and press those keys again. When you want to completely stop the script right-click the green AutoHotkey icon in the system tray and select 'Exit'. If you want to use a different key combination let me know in the comments.
If you want to set the size and position of the window you can modify the script to use WinMove. The following code will move the window in the top right corner but obviously you can specify your own X and Y coordinates and also the width and height of the window: