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question: What's a good alternative for Chrome's standalone PWA-s? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've recently switched to Firefox and I feel like it's overall a better experience – I just really miss the convenience of installing Progressive Web Applications as a standalone apps, or creating shortcuts from existing websites.

The benefit of this is that you can open them as a separate window, keeping the viewport size and hiding the URL bar.

Is there any viable alternative to this in Firefox?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On Android Firefox has been able to install PWAs for a while, but not exactly as Chrome does (probably a restriction set by Google), they won't show up on the app list but only in your desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use Smart Launcher and after installing PWA there's an option to add it to app list. What is your launcher?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've seen some independent projects on github like this one but haven't tried them yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use that one and it works fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This looks promising, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

@korun aside from #nwjs / https://nwjs.io - containers?

Good question and the answer depends on your OS, the targeted #WebApp and performance requirements...

@fuchsiii may know more...