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PWAs broke again. I think removing them from Firefox was a bad idea. (self.firefox)

submitted 2 weeks ago by I_Miss_Daniel to c/firefox

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Chrome and Edge make it simple to 'install' pages, so they're easy to pin to the task bar. PWAs for Firefox gives that capability to Firefox, but it's a bit brittle, and breaks easily if Firefox updates. It's broken again for me tonight and the usual 'reinstall this reinstall that' hasn't fixed it.

In my opinion Firefox took a significant backwards step when they killed that feature years ago.

I appreciate I might not be the target audience for Lemmy since I'm half Windows half Unix, and a Gmail / Keep / Calendar / Facebook / Messenger user.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't even know you could use PWAs on desktop. I would've loved that. Too late now I guess.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The PWAs for Firefox extension does a good job most of the time. Just frustrating when it gets broken.

Had it set up on both Windows and Fedora / Debian without issues.

[–] gedaliyah 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's not broken - It's an add-on that has to be updated every time that Firefox updates. The devs seem to not like it much since it is basically a workaround, but I've been using it for a couple years now with no issues. It can be tedious to update/reinstall every time FF updates, but It's not so bad.

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