Firefox Nightly Preps Progressive Web App Support
Firefox Nightly Preps Progressive Web App Support
A few months back Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's requests to do
What year is it?!
Ive been using PWAsForFirefox for couple of years now and it's pretty good tho a bit clunky at times as firefox updates tend to break some settings.
And reading through this article seems like I'll be sticking with PWAsForFirefox:
web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks – though the ‘new tab’ button will be replaced with a button to open a normal Firefox window.
Lame.
What's even the point if they do that, might as well just use bookmarks
Yeah what a wasted opportunity which is very typical for Firefox
I wanted a taskbar button for Navidrome at work. This is so I could quickly find my music in between the several open Firefox windows.
As the IT admin, I could've installed this. But I knew I REALLY shouldn't. It needed administrator rights, and I had no idea how secure it was.
So instead I used Brave for Navidrome PWA. Brave was installed as local user, so it couldn't bring down my entire organization if it got my password.
Now I'll be able to switch back.
I dont use many PWA's since I had to run them on chromium before. But as a web Dev and even more so as a user, I feel like PWA's are the way to go. They completely avoid all the app stores drama plus the 30% fees. Also the devs get to deploy instant updates without the delay going through the app stores. Just like any other web app. If done right I could see them replacing most native apps. Assuming we can get apple to allow PWAs full CPU usage. Currently they are throttling them from what I understand.
Edit: To clarify I'm speaking about mobile. I've never even tried PWAs on desktop and can't imagine why I would use that over browser+bookmarks.
And FWIW, Firefox already supports them on android; this is about desktop support.
Indeed. I'm not sure when they added mobile support back, but it wasn't there when I last looked for it. Guess its time for me to move my PWAs out of brave now. Thanks.
I was going to say, "am I losing my mind?" I've had PWAs on Firefox for years. I've never once cared to use one on the desktop I guess.
But it's easier to block trackers & ads on a PWA, and life made me very cynical about "the industry" 😅
My only problem with PWAs is that they have arbitrary security requirements. Anything non-localhost needs https. No self-signed cert allowed. Enforcing people to buy a router that supports dyndns for their self hosted apps is odd. I'm wondering who makes these rules.
Didn’t apple disable PWA’s in Europe?
https://www.techmonitor.ai/digital-economy/big-tech/apple-reverses-decision-to-ban-progressive-web-apps-following-user-backlash it was. But, they bring it back
PWAs are god awful on IOS.
They are god-awful everywhere. I don’t get why people can be like “yeah I want all of my apps to be janky crap that is usually missing a lot of features you’d get for free using the platform toolkit”. The only exception I’ve seen thus far that was actually good is Figma and god knows how much effort they had to put into that to make it behave even remotely reasonably.
Yess finally. Switched off of Chrome after seeing uBlock Origin was going to go away, but I have a lot of PWAs which has been hacky to get working.
most wanted feature