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

    • IONLYpost@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years 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.

    • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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
        5·
        2 years 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…

  • Mr_Figtree@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years 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.

  • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    There is a Firefox extension that works pretty well for PWAs (I’ve used it on windows and Linux). I wish it was folded back into the desktop browser too but I can appreciate that Mozilla has limits to what they can do and need to focus on more important/used features.

    • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Unfortunately it doesn’t work with librewolf 😔 but i can appreciate that too. It is still frustrating though that chromium is pretty flatly winning in this regard