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 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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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.

[ Parent | on HN ]

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

[ Parent | on HN ]

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/

[ Parent | on HN ]