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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How is it not properly supported at the moment? Genuinely curious, I don't use PWAs a lot but when I have it has worked fine with Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The experience is not as smooth, it just looks snappier in Chrome. Also some features (like wake locks) are not supported.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure, but Wiki has a bunch of footnotes that may explain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app#Browser_support

Edit: it's just this article, which seems like too much fluff to bother reading https://www.fastcompany.com/90597411/mozilla-firefox-no-ssb-pwa-support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not so much related to "proper" PWA support, but you can't install PWAs as desktop apps from Firefox, whereas you can from Chrome/Edge. It's the only reason I use Edge, just to locally install PWAs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use this addon to get "installable" PWAs and it works great for me. I use three installed PWAs regularly and have several more installed.