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Brave will not add Web Integration support (twitter.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.

Use this link to avoid going to Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago* (10 children)

What's the Firefox equivalent to:

Brave.exe --app="http://lemmy.world"

I use this a lot as I detest electron based applications. Mozilla dropped prism years ago and before that there was xulrunner and you cant open a JavaScript popup window without clicking a bookmark.

When Firefox has this very basic function perhaps I'll consider moving.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    This just changes the OS chrome on a browser tab right ? I generally dislike electron apps, but when they're literally just a browser tab I'd rather just leave it in the browser.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    This just changes the OS chrome on a browser tab right ?

    No this just opens the website in it's own window so it looks similar to an electron app, another way to do this is to open chrome://apps, drag any bookmark to this window/tab and right click to create icons.

    It does nothing to the "OS" of the browser.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I would recommend this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/

    It adds support for PWA in Firefox. I use it because Firefox dropped native support for PWA in Firefox.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I used this for awhile but it's more of a framework that requires vcredist and a local install of pwaforff binary to work around the short comings of mozilla pulling the plumbing out of the browser.

    It's a good workaround can have it's issues when one part receives an update that the rest isn't aware of.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    You can use ferdium for that. I also made a profile, that has hidden all possible buttons and I made links to open website in that cut down profile. You can also use user.js to make it really slick.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I use brave and this is built in and still gives me the protections offered by Brave.

    What protections does this offer?

    Additionally I see mention of electron in the code!!!!!!!!!

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Ferdium is based on electron. But it actually uses it to render websites. It's slick and handy. When talking about profiles, I mean in Firefox, which will grand you all the protections you need. If you need to add addons or change settings, with the user.js config, you will need to type about:setthings or about:addons rathet then cluck on a few buttons, but if all you use it for is just a few sites working in a single window, it's fine.

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