Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web [progressive web apps]

Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by ohgodplsno on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:13AM (#25928468)

Oh hey, more fearmongering and horrible clickbait about Firefox, it had been a few hours without some!

Firefox just dropped the single site browser feature. The thing that was hidden under a flag for the executable, that you had to actually dig for quite a bit to find. The thing that didn't work that well to begin with. Link in your site that redirects to another site? Well, your window is now a... multiple site browser, because it's going to stay in there.

But no, surely it's Firefox moving away from a key piece of the open web, and not because the feature never worked that well in the first place. Or that barely anyone used it.

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Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by paulgb on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:22AM (#25928550)

Thanks for the context. I had trouble parsing the article because it was so blogspammy.

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Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by ballenf on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:26AM (#25928605)

FWIW, I use a program called "flow" on MacOS that does this but using Safari. Use it for slack and a music streaming, and dev kanban board. Anything can be made to be stuck to front or back.

Eliminates all the buttons, and gets a custom title.

It could be better and I know the same exists and is more popular for Chrome, but I wanted the absolute lowest CPU possible for MacOS.

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Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by ohgodplsno on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:33AM (#25928693)

But I take it that if you were to click on a link in one of those windows, your Slack window now becomes... a Gitlab window.

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Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by ballenf on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:02PM (#25931506)

That's a customizable setting in Flow. You can have it launch your default browser or open it internally.

There's also the pros and cons of auth/cookie isolation. You'll need to log in to Slack again. But if you use it for, say, Facebook it will work like the isolation feature in FF.

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Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by addicted on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:38AM (#25928759)

There used to be something like this built on Firefox. I'm not sure what happened to it.

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Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by FrontAid on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:47AM (#25928858)

Maybe you are referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Prism

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Re:Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web... by marczellm on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:28PM (#25934210)

Aren't you referring to Fluid? https://fluidapp.com/

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