Also worth noting that PWAs with Firefox are very slow make the phone go extremely hot, you might probably want to immediately close them and just use the web UI inside the browser instead.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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I keep the browser in permanent private mode because I hate how especially FF becomes bloated with cache and shit and then gets crashy, slow and memory hungry anyway. Also I basically hate all cookies now. Since FF on mobile is trying so hard to be even stupider than Chrome, it's just much easier for me to be permanent in private mode and have the handful of sites I visit often as PWAs. It's faster on average that way.
Goddamn I hate the modern web so much.
I'm going to suggest checking out https://wefwef.app/ which is also a PWA but is very similar to Apollo.
It's solved a lot of problems lemmy's own PWA has and is done really well
Hey that looks good. How does this work? If I Iog in through this, do my login details go through some other party? I don't quite get these web apps honestly.
I checked the github code, your login stays local to your phone and your local browser calls your lemmy instance.
I didn't check what's running on the wefwef.app site is actually the github code but all 3rd party apps have this risk even if you download it from an App Store.
But I’m relatively comfortable with the app, but do always follow good practices like not repeating passwords and worst case they just steal my lemmy account 🤷
If you’re concerned you could run the github code yourself since it’s open source https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef
That's great, thanks. I usually use foss apps in the first place. I just wasn't sure how webapps work, at what stage the wrapper oe whatever changes the web site.
Ya my Lemmy acct is pretty imports to me right now, heh.
Not sure how I'd run the code myself... Guess I'd need to have a web server running? Maybe on my phone even? That sounds like a rad idea.
It's worth noting that crashing is always a browser bug. So while it is likely triggered by a Lemmy bug as well it would be a good idea to report it to the browsers too.
Oh, I noticed this too. I wound up just using Samsung Internet to install as a PWA. It's not like I need uBlock Origin on lemmy.
Had the same issue and was wondering if it was due to using a firefox fork. i use Mull and also tried Fennec both crash on startup for me
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