• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    4 days ago

    Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user’s request to do so.

    FINALLY! 🎉

    The flag is there, but it currently doesn’t do anything…

    Oh…

    …web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, …

    Does…Mozilla understand why people want/have been asking for PWA support? Because it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it.

    Element, Emby, CodeServer, Tesseract/Photon/Alexandrite/Lemmy-UI, Pairdrop, HomeAssistant, Nextcloud, and more. You know what all those have in common? I can “install” them in Chromium and they appear exactly like native desktop apps. THAT IS WHAT WE WANT, MOZILLA.

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      4 days ago

      Could be that it’s still a work in progress? I’m holding out hope that if they’ve put this much work in already, they know what we want.

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        4 days ago

        You’d think. I mean, Firefox Mobile has full PWA support, so it’s not like they’re blind to what “PWA” means for most people (assuming the mobile and desktop teams actually talk to one another).

        I’ve held out hope this long, so I suppose I can wait a bit longer. The announcement just got my hopes up, and I was pretty salty when I read the actual details of how they’re (initially?) implementing it.

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        4 days ago

        Same, though only for my self-hosted webapps and the occasional odd website that hates FF. I’ve not had any issues with YT in FF like some people have reported over the last several months. I would love to ditch Chromium entirely though.