PWA (progressive web apps) support

[xe1st]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Yes, there is no PWA support for Firefox by default. There are many sites I install as PWA, and that's why I go with a Chromium browser. There is an extension for pwa support, but it requires you to install some other things as well. I'd rather have it built into the browser. I think native PWA support will put Floorp ahead of firefox and other forks.

Describe the solution you'd like

Native PWA support for Floorp

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[surapunoyousei]

I don't have time to work on it, so I can't guarantee it, but it is among the features we want to add it.

[dominichayesferen]

There is an upstream effort in the form of the Firefox PWAs Project, so their work may be a good reference point for starting implementation.

[surapunoyousei]

There is an upstream effort in the form of the Firefox PWAs Project, so their work may be a good reference point for starting implementation.

I have an idea. Use another approach is good for native implement.

[gunir]

Would be wonderful to be able to bring back PWA, it's very useful in my opinion:

• Reduce burden for main browser
• Improve privacy because PWA application is isolated from main profile, they can't get a lot of your 3rd party cookies
• Easy management

This project has a lot of interesting features: https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox

• Profile template allowing user to create new PWA with preconfigured about:config's settings
• Auto open in PWA, for example you created a Netflix PWA, then if you open Netflix in your Floorp it automatically open the Netflix PWA

[black7375]

Another PWA implementation that I've had a good experience with is Web catalog.
It's moved to closed source now, but it's license-compatible with MPL 2.0, so it's worth a look on the frontend.

[surapunoyousei]

Hey. Big news.

Currently, I'm implementing PWA to Floorp. On Windows, PWA will be available on 11.7.0 or later.

2023-11-02-18-12-03.1.mp4

[surapunoyousei]

On Linux, API is missing...

[gunir]

We might need to ask public for help at this point, we have a lot of Mac users, which is very surprising it would be great to be able to implement very basic PWA without shortcut/pinning instead.

[p134c0d3]

@surapunoyousei as someone who almost exclusively uses Linux, this would be amazing. What is the project name of the API? I can go make a request there. 🙂 PWA support was the only thing keeping me on Brave tbh. Love the Firefox base. If they can get an API for *nix I'd switch everything over from Brave to Floorp. Love the browser and customizations that come with it!

[surapunoyousei]

So.. API means Firefox's inside API. I create feature with JavaScript. Mozilla does not provide it.

[p134c0d3]

Thanks for the clarification. 🙂

[surapunoyousei]

We finished Windows PWA implementation. This will be available at Floorp 11.7.0. I'm so exciting to try this feature for users!

Floorp has THE BIG BANG now.

Thanks @black7375 for Lepton's icon PWA implements!

See you again at Floorp 11.7.0

[gunir]

Big feature, congrats this is amazing!

Thanks for your hardwork!

[black7375]

Nice feature!!
It's a prime example of the benefits of a forked browser.

[xe1st]

That's great, good job :)

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[xe1st]

@surapunoyousei Hi, first of all thanks for adding the PWA feature. It is great to have PWA as native. Something to note though, can you configure the PWA so that only the top bar is visible with no url bar (like on chromium PWAs, you can still access extensions and others with 3 dots). So these PWAs would look cleaner and more like native apps than a browser window. I added a picture for comparison.

[surapunoyousei]

Difficulrt....

[xe1st]

I see, maybe in the future then :)

[Void48]

I would also appreciate this a lot. Hope you can give it a try sometimes!

[gunir]

I wonder if it's possible to open PWA in Container, that allows us to use multiple accounts in PWA instead of using account from Default Container.