Chrome and Edge make it simple to ‘install’ pages, so they’re easy to pin to the task bar. PWAs for Firefox gives that capability to Firefox, but it’s a bit brittle, and breaks easily if Firefox updates. It’s broken again for me tonight and the usual ‘reinstall this reinstall that’ hasn’t fixed it.

In my opinion Firefox took a significant backwards step when they killed that feature years ago.

I appreciate I might not be the target audience for Lemmy since I’m half Windows half Unix, and a Gmail / Keep / Calendar / Facebook / Messenger user.

    • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      The PWAs for Firefox extension does a good job most of the time. Just frustrating when it gets broken.

      Had it set up on both Windows and Fedora / Debian without issues.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
      1·
      26 days ago

      It’s not broken - It’s an add-on that has to be updated every time that Firefox updates. The devs seem to not like it much since it is basically a workaround, but I’ve been using it for a couple years now with no issues. It can be tedious to update/reinstall every time FF updates, but It’s not so bad.

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  • vzq@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    On the one hand, I agree that it’s a step back. In the other hand, I think it’s also partly a recognition that PWAs have not lived up to the promise and are essentially impossible to get right.

    I’m sad for the slow languishing death of PWAs, but I’m not faulting FF for pulling the plug once it became clear it was a doomed endeavor.

    • Thorry84@feddit.nl
      3·
      1 month ago

      Are PWAs dying though? I don’t think they are. They are still very popular and I use several every day.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
      2·
      26 days ago

      Firefox is currently in the process of rebuilding the official support. I don’t have particularly high hopes that they will get it right, but I’m reserving judgement until I see it.

    • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I guess really all I want is the option to have a task bar icon for each ‘website’ - I’ve doubled them up in the screenshot as half are broken at the moment. Each Gmail session is tied to a separate address, so could technically just be a ‘bookmark’ but it’s nice that they act as their own window, analagous to being an app. That doesn’t really have to be a PWA I guess, but a separate window.