Firefox Nightly Preps Progressive Web App Support

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• Unmapped@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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 app to allow PWAs full CPU usage. Currently they are throttling them from what I understand.

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  • Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But it’s easier to block trackers & ads on a PWA, and life made me very cynical about “the industry” 😅

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  • Vincent@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And FWIW, Firefox already supports them on android; this is about desktop support.

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Unmapped@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • fxdave@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    PWAs are god awful on IOS.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wrote a little background app and extension that opens links from a Chrome PWA in the same named Profile in Firefox for exactly this reason. Probably shoupd have released that…

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What’s even the point if they do that, might as well just use bookmarks

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah what a wasted opportunity which is very typical for Firefox

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• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• moe90@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  most wanted feature

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