Hopefully (re)adding hotkeys to Firefox for Android is next.
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I will mourn the lack of a non-Chrome browser engine with enough market share to prevent Chrome from unilaterally changing the web.
Safari / WebKit. It's unironically better than Chrome in nearly every way, except dev tools.
And being proprietary, and only running on one family of operating systems.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if you want to copy and share the page?
I'd be fine with a 2~3 click operation to get the URL. Which is basically how it works in Chrome in PWA mode: a few basic actions (get the URL, print, cast, adjust zoom etc) in a menu, and an option to punt it to the full chrome if needed.
That’s a fine idea.
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#87Why would I want to use a pwa that hides the things that allow me to control what the browser does? I actively use websites over apps solely because I have more control over the interaction.
Perhaps because you've chosen to install a PWA instead of continuing to use the website? The experience is different, if you want a browser like environment, just use the browser.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. if 90% of the people don't want a toolbar in a PWA (I'm being generous about 10% wanting it), it makes sense to not have it 2. It is not harder to implement a button to show the toolbar menu In all case, it should be (it already is by the spec!) a developer option, not something enforced by the browser.
I have learned a long time ago not to make claims about how hard it is to implement something in other people's projects - I get it wrong often enough about my own. (Also, I don't think there's a single "PWA spec".)
It's definitely doable to make the bar disappear with a tiny bit of CSS. Did it myself in the past and the Firefox team does it partially for their vertical tabs feature
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#89I used Firefox for the lack of these features. Time to look at an alternative.
You are using Firefox because it does not support PWAs like Chromium does? So what alternatives are left on the table for you? Lynx?
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#90I have been installing some PWAs lately at work and... I love them. They have been replacing the need for electron and they also feel integrated with the OS. In chrome, there is always a button to "bring back" the app from pwa into a browser tab (really nice). There is the option to open links directly in the pwa, you can access your extension from a small icon. I read that on the specs there might be an option to ke…
Thank you very much, Excalidraw is the best PWA implementation I have seen so far.