Bring back PWA (progressive web apps)
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Progressive Web apps are an important feature of a browser that Firefox is the only one missing. For some, it can be the reason to switch to another browser. In other cases like for the Steamdeck, it's what imposed the choice to only include Chrome in the SteamOS interface. Other problem even for av...

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

  • BenEnglish
    1•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.