I have been loving Native Alpha. Being able to use web versions of apps and not be forced to hand over absurd privacy violating permissions is awesome. My only problem is it appears to run straight off of Chrome’s web engine, and I would rather use Firefox. In large part because of extensions/addons.

  • hendrik
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    52 months ago

    Yes. You can open a website in Firefox and choose “Add to home screen” from the menu. That’ll do something very similar to what native alpha does.

  • @gaylord_fartmaster
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    42 months ago

    I’ve never used Native Alpha, but from what I saw at a glance, Firefox does have that same functionality built in through the “Add to Home Screen” option, but only if the site is a PWA. Otherwise the home screen icon will just open the site in the browser like it normally would.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      native alpha works with any application, and is a manager of sorts. so it’s quite a lot more ergonomic and reliable to use.

  • @user
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    -32 months ago

    No. Even if a Firefox webview existed, it woul’d not use the extensions from your main browser. An adblock option is available from the native alpha settings if you’re interested.

    • @clubb
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      32 months ago

      It does exist, and it does use your extentions.