I don't really understand what this is for then if it doesn't spawn in a minimal frame. This is somehow worse than just having a shortcut to open the app in a regular browser tab.
Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps
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#72Finally, I had installed Brave just for the web-app support.
Yesterday afternoon I transitioned from Brave to Firefox. Brave was struggling, admittedly after a system uptime of 69 days, even after killing it brave would regularly struggle and do a whole ton of disc I/O, bringing my system to its knees. Rebooting fixes it, FYI, but it seems weird that "pkill -f brave" doesn't seem to resolve it. Slack also has similar struggles, this is under Ubuntu 22.04. So far Firefox has be…
FWIW my default Firefox profile is chock full of content blockers, so I expect demanding sites to fail on first load. I grant additional permissions manually, when I must.
But I had no (extra) trouble opening Jira tickets a few months ago when working with a partner integration.
So, Jira definitely should work on Firefox.
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#76Mozilla were ruined by big Google checks. How they could let this opportunity slip while electron became the ui for every major desktop app… such a shame.
Personally, I feel Mozilla did not market XUL[1] enough. Had they done that, it could have become what Electron is today, with a native look and feel, and with a much reduced footprint while still offering a JS-based runtime for applications. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
I remember using Songbird. It was nice.
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#77This whole article leaves me thinking that they just reinvented having a separate window for each page, and are just calling them "taskbar tabs" instead of "windows". After inventing tabs, we've now come full circle.
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#78It’s never too late, glad to see feature work that gets attention.
Hopefully they keep building from here & do full PWA and then from there to an answer to Electron!
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I feel Mozilla did not market XUL[1] enough. Had they done that, it could have become what Electron is today, with a native look and feel, and with a much reduced footprint while still offering a JS-based runtime for applications. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
I remember using Songbird. It was nice.
Or chatzilla.
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#80Web apps seem more beneficial to the business than to the end user. Like who cares?
For the first time ever, it is possible to build an app that runs on anything that can run webkit. I use the same app on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Debian, even GrapheneOS. No AppStore, no account needed. I think it benefits or at least could benefit the end user a lot in the long term, but it hurts the walled/semiwalled gardens of MS, Apple and Google and their business. Which is why they seem so reluctant to sup…
Well, there was FirefoxOS then a fork of it called KaiOS..