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

  • Mr_Figtree@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    so I can totally ditch chromium/electron

    GNOME Web isn’t Chromium-based and does support PWAs, so it might work for your usecase.

    • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t really know the technical details, but my mental model is it’s like an electron app but your browser is what powers it, and you don’t get all the bloat an electron app brings with it

      • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Why is this news? We had these for over a decade - Firefox had XULRunner, Opera back then had some sort of app thingy, I feel like this comes around every so often and it never really catches on because you could just run the website in the browser anyway - doing it with less browser controls / UI never seems to catch on. Maybe this time it will but…

  • Ben@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I still need someone to fully explain to me why they want some way to pretend a website is an application.

    Especially as, when I tried using PWA (so I could open, for example, Lazada PWA as if it was a specific application instead of just Lazada running in Firefox) the only benefit was that - erm - it worked in it’s own profile, without any add-ons from the main browser profile.

    For this, I can simply use the WebApp manager https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager - yet I find that right now I only have a single one which is in use (that’s the Plex Web interface which I bound to open with a mouse gesture).

    Take that away and - well, I just hit menu, type ‘ple’ and see the Firefox bookmark - Enter to open that.

    Hardly really worth the resources and efforts for a tiny minority when a browser is struggling to survive.

    • IONLYpost@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      If “installing a “Web App”” is downloading a my most-visited webpage/template, or even the website to local storage to improve load times and responsiveness, ok i get it, its a PWA, I am all for it. Only if they can do that, in 2023 (where still no one can properly implement). But if what they want to do is calling everything you have on a computer an “App”, then no thanks Apple and Fuck You.