Not sure if this is okay here, but I feel like you guys will understand and be able to help!

I’ve just realised how much I hate how everything is done via browser these days, it really slows me down and kills what semblance of organisation I have.

For example, I mostly use WhatsApp to chat with my gf, I don’t reply too much because I don’t like interrupting what I’m doing to type on my phone’s crappy keyboard when I’m at a computer, and my ADHD makes switching between phone and PC really disruptive.

I can use WhatsApp we, but it’s always logged out (need my phone again, though this won’t fix it), but mostly, I just can’t find the bloody thing among a bunch of tabs and windows. The same goes for tons of stuff I need to switch between a lot that are accessed via browser.

I just want the programs I’m using to be open, and appear in the task bar with their own icons so I can switch to them.

What I want are basically containers for a browser. So I hit the button for the ‘program’ which really just launches a browser that goes to the specific address, and ideally, can retain login information, and appears as a distinct item in the task bar, with it’s own icon, and cannot simply be merged with my browser.

Give that loads of desktop software is just chromium in a container, I feel like this shouldn’t be too much of a technical hurdle. Any ideas? I didn’t realise that this was such a problem until I thought about it!

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    1 year ago

    If you are a programmer or have some experience, you can try wrapping the site with a standalone runtime like electron or nw.js or leverage automation tools like Playwright and Puppeteer.

    Otherwise you may need to check if your browser supports encapsulating webpages into its own browser context (e.g. Edge and Safari). Some websites support this natively via the Progressive Web App (PWA) paradigm.