Firefox is Finally Adding Support for Web Apps
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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
  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    18 days 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.

    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.

  • Unmapped@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    18 days 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.

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      18 days ago

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

    • Vincent@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      18 days ago

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

      • Unmapped@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        18 days ago

        Yes, they did that when the EU made the ruling about allowing other app stores. Apple doesn’t like PWAs cause they lose their 30% cut. Hopefully we some ruling or law that they have to treat them equal to native apps.

    • fxdave@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      18 days 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.

      • butter@midwest.socialEnglish
        0·
        17 days ago

        You can do DDNS for free, using a client app on your server, rather than router.

        I use cloudflare-ddns

        • fxdave@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          17 days ago

          Oh right. Thanks, indeed. However, for private apps on LAN addresses it’s still a problem.

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    18 days 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.