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Re:Firefox 85 by joshuaissac on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:13AM (#25916611)
> no PWA mode (impossible to put an icon of a website to your homescreen, which will open the website without a browser UI)

Firefox for Android has this. Are you referring to Firefox for desktop?

Re:Firefox 85 by IvanK_net on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:28AM (#25916872)
I think a PWA mode is useful in all cases on all devices. But most of users use my program on desktops.
Re:Firefox 85 by emayljames on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:08PM (#25921074)
On my Firefox Desktop on Manjaro Linux, I was able to save a link and set it to no toolbars. No magic settings done.
Re:Firefox 85 by tweetle_beetle on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:42AM (#25917057)
The Firefox team has more or less said that the feature is not coming to desktop. I think a primitive version was hidden behind a flag, but even that is going to be dropped.
Re:Firefox 85 by eznzt on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:07PM (#25918302)
That's bad. I use it with Edgium for Spotify and it's neat, it behaves like a desktop application.
Re:Firefox 85 by moron4hire on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:16PM (#25919955)
I use it for about half a dozen apps. Azure Portal, Youtube Music, SoundCloud, Google Cloud Platform, Twitter, Teamwork, and this chat app I maintain. And I keep them pinned to my taskbar. I love this feature.
Re:Firefox 85 by addicted on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:58AM (#25917269)
Do you know the reasoning behind this?
Re:Firefox 85 by kenniskrag on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:01AM (#25917313)
> As Gijs says, we have limited resources and so have to spend those resources on work that appears to have the most impact on our mission. Based on the available data we have (both the research we performed as well as looking at how Chrome and Edge's implementations are being received) PWAs on desktop fall behind other work right now. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593