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.
I guess really all I want is the option to have a task bar icon for each ‘website’ - I’ve doubled them up in the screenshot as half are broken at the moment. Each Gmail session is tied to a separate address, so could technically just be a ‘bookmark’ but it’s nice that they act as their own window, analagous to being an app. That doesn’t really have to be a PWA I guess, but a separate window.
If you do this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/create-desktop-shortcut-website
…and then edit the created shortcut to add “–new-window” as argument, does that work?
Maybe you can even drag the shortcut onto the Windows Taskbar…?