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Mozilla does not want to support PWAs in Firefox, yet MDN has a PWA manifest and can be installed in Chromium. (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Firefox supports PWAs, at least on mobile.

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

    Are they PWAs tho, or just shortcuts?

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

    They open in a window separate from the browser and don't display the browser toolbar, so not just shortcuts.

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

    The main purpose of PWAs is not to remove the browser toolbar but rather cache most of the website to improve speed and reduce data usage if I am not wrong, there are external tools to get rid of the toolbar but Firefox dropped the PWA spec which includes a lot more than just that.

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

    Real PWAs, though PWAs aren't that different from shortcuts tbh

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

    As far as I know their main purpose is to cache various parts of the website properly which is a lot more than just a shortcut.

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

    Regular websites can do that too using service workers - Lemmy's webapp uses this to show an error when an instance is unreachable

    What we call a PWA is usually just a webpage with a webmanifest, and a service worker script to manage loading those cached resources you mentioned

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Seems like you are right, the caching for proper offline usage and use with very limited internet connections is all done trough service workers. Their main job seems to be system integration and while Firefox Android kind of sucks at that too it doesn't seem like they ever cut that down so they just dropped it for desktop users.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    You can use them on Mint through their webapp application.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    it does? How

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

    Did my image not load?

    Anyway, there's a webapp application that came with Mint and I can use it to setup PWAs through Firefox. I use it for my two router's setup pages.

    Here's a link to the git for the that application: https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Nice, I was trying to figure out how to get that working with Firefox. But, to be fair, it's not Firefox that's supporting PWA, it's the mint webapp-manager which is only included with Mint and requires extra steps to install on other OSes. Not as straight forward as PWA being directly supported by Firefox.

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

    Doesnt seem like it. But thanks

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's not firefox that supports it, it's an app called webapp manager. you can make webapps using any browser you have installed.

    You can use it on any distro.

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