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EU push for open source, GIMP3 is out, Firefox gets webapps back_ Linux & Open Source News (peertube.wtf)
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[โ€“] ptz@dubvee.org 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's request to do so.

FINALLY! ๐ŸŽ‰

The flag is there, but it currently doesn't do anything.....

Oh...

...web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, ...

Does....Mozilla understand why people want/have been asking for PWA support? Because it sure as hell doesn't seem like it.

Element, Emby, CodeServer, Tesseract/Photon/Alexandrite/Lemmy-UI, Pairdrop, HomeAssistant, Nextcloud, and more. You know what all those have in common? I can "install" them in Chromium and they appear exactly like native desktop apps. THAT IS WHAT WE WANT, MOZILLA.

[โ€“] AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Could be that it's still a work in progress? I'm holding out hope that if they've put this much work in already, they know what we want.

[โ€“] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You'd think. I mean, Firefox Mobile has full PWA support, so it's not like they're blind to what "PWA" means for most people (assuming the mobile and desktop teams actually talk to one another).

I've held out hope this long, so I suppose I can wait a bit longer. The announcement just got my hopes up, and I was pretty salty when I read the actual details of how they're (initially?) implementing it.

[โ€“] PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly I still use Chrome for YouTube just for that. Pretty much everything else is Firefox

[โ€“] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Same, though only for my self-hosted webapps and the occasional odd website that hates FF. I've not had any issues with YT in FF like some people have reported over the last several months. I would love to ditch Chromium entirely though.

[โ€“] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

If you change your user agent for those websites it'll usually just work lol