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Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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Re: Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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Post by mathix »

gingersnap wrote: post #20

I would like to have the complete opposite. Turn any app into a website so that I don't need to download them, and can just access them through my browser.

With FTWA apps are still websites, it's just another way of opening them without distractions of the browser frame.

Re: Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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Post by prasoonds »

This is really cool! Any chance of adding support for the Arc browser? Right now, Chrome allows for some websites (WhatsApp, Spotify, YouTube Music) to be made into "apps" already via PWAs. Arc - which is based on chromium, for some mysterious reason, chooses to not support PWAs so this would be extremely useful for Arc!

Re: Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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Post by usr1106 »

sigh_again wrote: post #5

Pretty good! Just a few observations: * The Firefox (BETA) entry does not work on default Ubuntu installs, where Firefox is a Snap. Yes, snap bad, bla bla bla, but it still remains one of the most likely way Firefox will be installed on Ubuntu. This comes from the fact that your script attempts to locate the profile folder in ~/.mozilla/firefox, whereas snaps stores them in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/. *…

Since Mozilla has started to provide an official Debian-style repository there is no reason to use snap on Ubuntu any more. Well, except if some users don't know or don't care to switch.

Re: Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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Post by oulipo »

For people who want a "separate window" on Chrome osX (at least), you can go on the website, click on the "..." next to your profile picture, then "Cast, save and share" > "Install website as app"

It does the same, but runs as a "separate app" so that cmd+Q only exits the app

Re: Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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Post by LVB »

mathix wrote: post #21
gingersnap wrote: post #20

I would like to have the complete opposite. Turn any app into a website so that I don't need to download them, and can just access them through my browser.

With FTWA apps are still websites, it's just another way of opening them without distractions of the browser frame.

I think they’re saying that instead of having to try, for example, an iOS app by downloading it from the App Store, they prefer to visit a URL.

Re: Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app

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Post by wiseowise »

LVB wrote: post #28
mathix wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With FTWA apps are still websites, it's just another way of opening them without distractions of the browser frame.

I think they’re saying that instead of having to try, for example, an iOS app by downloading it from the App Store, they prefer to visit a URL.

How would you then pay 30% Apple tax?! What a ridiculous idea!
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