• Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 hours ago

    Ive been using PWAsForFirefox for couple of years now and it’s pretty good tho a bit clunky at times as firefox updates tend to break some settings.

    And reading through this article seems like I’ll be sticking with PWAsForFirefox:

    web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks – though the ‘new tab’ button will be replaced with a button to open a normal Firefox window.

    Lame.

    • butter@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I wanted a taskbar button for Navidrome at work. This is so I could quickly find my music in between the several open Firefox windows.

      As the IT admin, I could’ve installed this. But I knew I REALLY shouldn’t. It needed administrator rights, and I had no idea how secure it was.

      So instead I used Brave for Navidrome PWA. Brave was installed as local user, so it couldn’t bring down my entire organization if it got my password.

      Now I’ll be able to switch back.

  • Unmapped@lemmy.mlEnglish
    551·
    20 hours ago

    I dont use many PWA’s since I had to run them on chromium before. But as a web Dev and even more so as a user, I feel like PWA’s are the way to go. They completely avoid all the app stores drama plus the 30% fees. Also the devs get to deploy instant updates without the delay going through the app stores. Just like any other web app. If done right I could see them replacing most native apps. Assuming we can get apple to allow PWAs full CPU usage. Currently they are throttling them from what I understand.

    Edit: To clarify I’m speaking about mobile. I’ve never even tried PWAs on desktop and can’t imagine why I would use that over browser+bookmarks.

    • Vincent@feddit.nlEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      And FWIW, Firefox already supports them on android; this is about desktop support.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I was going to say, “am I losing my mind?” I’ve had PWAs on Firefox for years. I’ve never once cared to use one on the desktop I guess.

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19·
      20 hours ago

      But it’s easier to block trackers & ads on a PWA, and life made me very cynical about “the industry” 😅

    • fxdave@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      15 hours ago

      My only problem with PWAs is that they have arbitrary security requirements. Anything non-localhost needs https. No self-signed cert allowed. Enforcing people to buy a router that supports dyndns for their self hosted apps is odd. I’m wondering who makes these rules.

      • butter@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        You can do DDNS for free, using a client app on your server, rather than router.

        I use cloudflare-ddns

        • fxdave@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Oh right. Thanks, indeed. However, for private apps on LAN addresses it’s still a problem.

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        58 minutes ago

        They are god-awful everywhere. I don’t get why people can be like “yeah I want all of my apps to be janky crap that is usually missing a lot of features you’d get for free using the platform toolkit”. The only exception I’ve seen thus far that was actually good is Figma and god knows how much effort they had to put into that to make it behave even remotely reasonably.

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    201·
    19 hours ago

    Yess finally. Switched off of Chrome after seeing uBlock Origin was going to go away, but I have a lot of PWAs which has been hacky to get working.