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Firefox is Finally Adding Support for Web Apps (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (22 children)

Similarly, Rubino says web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks

But why, the whole purpose is to behave like a stand alone app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On desktop I think that's less valuable, and personally, I like the confidence of knowing that eg uBO still works, and the predictability of how it will behave.

The Connect thread is interesting; PWAs are a nebulous term and everyone has different use cases for them, so if this allows to cover some of those with significantly less investment, that makes sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah when they removed it there was virtually no comment on it. At the time everybody understood PWAs were just... you might as well use a new window and press F11. It's just window dressing.

I mean I get it, there's some marginal use cases. Sure. And it's nice they're back!

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