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Mozilla wants users to take part in a survey about browser features (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Bring back PWA!!

Sadly, they're probably thinking mobile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, some of these questions made more sense for mobile than desktop. For example, I want to split tabs on desktop, but I don't on mobile. Likewise, I don't really care about PWAs on mobile (there's usually an app with a better experience), but I do care on desktop because that isn't a thing on my system (Linux).

I think it would've been better had they broken them into groups for mobile and desktop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Desktop PWAs are easy as you can just create a shortcut

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yup. A lot of services don't offer official apps on Linux, so I rely on webpages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nope. A PWA gives you a browser window with no menu bars and the icon of the age vs the browser. It's treated as a separate entity in your start bar for task switching.

Many of us still use Chromium for that one feature, while using Firefox for everything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can do that with command line arguments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not with FF. Well, not without massive CSS app customization and separate profiles which is not officially supported.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes you can. Try running Firefox --help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, you cannot. There have been tickets open about this for ages. You are talking about opening a URL, not a PWA.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PWAs were a feature I marked "want least". I don't like a cluttered home screen, I'd much rather just use bookmarks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The reason I mention PWA for desktop is very different from mobile, but for either, a PWA can live anywhere, it's just a menu less browser with the site's icon vs the firefox one. Handy for sites with no apps that you want to be able to task switch independently for. They dont have to be on a home screen or desktop.

Granted, the wording of the question would make one think so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, it's a fancy way to save a tab. I just leave the tab open. Not a feature I want, so not something I want them to waste limited development time on. It'd be nice if it were through the bookmarks interface, so booarks could save state & history the way tabs do, but that's not what's proposed so I'd rather not have this. PWAs are a workaround to make up for the limitations of bookmarks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't PWAs already exist and work on mobile? I think they'd work on desktop PWAs again then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nope, just shortcuts.