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Firefox still doesn't have PWA support (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/firefox

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I really wish there was more word from mozilla on this. There are a few electron apps that I'd much rather use a PWA for so I can totally ditch chromium/electron

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is this news? We had these for over a decade - Firefox had XULRunner, Opera back then had some sort of app thingy, I feel like this comes around every so often and it never really catches on because you could just run the website in the browser anyway - doing it with less browser controls / UI never seems to catch on. Maybe this time it will but...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well electron apps have caught on, but a standard like this that lets you do it directly with your browser seems like it would be better

[–] BendyLemmy 1 points 1 year ago

I did enjoy Vivaldi for that reason, though, you could do 'hide UI'. Whilst all the controls/tabs/URLbar were still there, they got hidden. It LOOKED exactly like a webapp - but without creating a separate profile for the website in question.

If I want to isolate (which I generally do with a separate user/profile) then I'll do it that way... so if I really wanted a separate 'Amazon' application, it'd be firefox -p Amazon.

Having a separate shortcut in Firefox to HIDE UI would definitely be nice.