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What does a Facebook app offer over just giving the website notification permissions in Chrome or Firefox?

by takno 10y ago

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gkoberger 10y ago
Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.
- hjgrtrtr 10y ago
  You can just move the "tab" to it's own window :)
  - ghayes 10y ago
    But then it's Cmd+`
    - OJFord 10y ago
      Worse, it's Cmd+Tab to _a_ Chrome window (maybe you get lucky) and only then Cmd+` to cycle through Chrome windows.
- takno 10y ago
  I can see some value to a chat app, not least to hold your presence to online. It's the app for the rest of it and the Instagram app that have me confused
- Pxtl 10y ago
  In general is there a good browser extension or something for a "browser chat tab" that you keep open and don't want to manage as a normal browser tab/window? With a pulse-on-change feature?
  - gcr 10y ago
    Could be a good use case for tab pinning, I suppose. Not quite what you're looking for though.
  - jmiserez 10y ago
    Chrome->File->Create Application shortcut does this. Or is that not what you're looking for?
- gcr 10y ago
  I would personally love it if Chrome tabs showed up in Spotlight. Then, ⌘+Space "slack" would either open up the app or the tab, no sweat. :-)
  - kawera 10y ago
    There is a plugin for Alfred where you can search/switch to a tab on all open browsers. Works on FF/Chrome/Chromium/Safari.
- ThrustVectoring 10y ago
  Vimium helped me with this - the `T` shortcut opens an omnibar that searches your open tabs for the text you're entering. It's still two-part, but it's keyboard shortcut + text search instead of visually identifying the correct tab and clicking on it.
- 50901 10y ago
  So you need an app because OS X's window manager is terrible.
  - jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
    The window manager is not semantically aware that a particular tab in a particular window in a particular browser is the canonical navigation target for switching to a particular app. A first class platform-native app provides this.
- knight17 10y ago
  We can move tabs to new window. In that the task switcher will be able to go to the window directly.
- sixothree 10y ago
  I agree with the sentiment. Also typing 'facebook' into the address bar of FireFox the first result will be to switch to the facebook tab.

What does a Facebook app offer over just giving the website notification permissions in Chrome or Firefox?

by takno 10y ago

What does a Facebook app offer over just giving the website notification permissions in Chrome or Firefox?

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gkoberger 10y ago

Personally, I like being able to Cmd+tab to commonly-used chat apps. Really hard to have a conversation (while doing other stuff) when you have to Cmd+tab to Chrome, and then find the tab.

hjgrtrtr 10y ago
You can just move the "tab" to it's own window :)
- ghayes 10y ago
  But then it's Cmd+`
  - OJFord 10y ago
    Worse, it's Cmd+Tab to _a_ Chrome window (maybe you get lucky) and only then Cmd+` to cycle through Chrome windows.
takno 10y ago
I can see some value to a chat app, not least to hold your presence to online. It's the app for the rest of it and the Instagram app that have me confused
Pxtl 10y ago
In general is there a good browser extension or something for a "browser chat tab" that you keep open and don't want to manage as a normal browser tab/window? With a pulse-on-change feature?
- gcr 10y ago
  Could be a good use case for tab pinning, I suppose. Not quite what you're looking for though.
- jmiserez 10y ago
  Chrome->File->Create Application shortcut does this. Or is that not what you're looking for?
gcr 10y ago
I would personally love it if Chrome tabs showed up in Spotlight. Then, ⌘+Space "slack" would either open up the app or the tab, no sweat. :-)
- kawera 10y ago
  There is a plugin for Alfred where you can search/switch to a tab on all open browsers. Works on FF/Chrome/Chromium/Safari.
ThrustVectoring 10y ago
Vimium helped me with this - the `T` shortcut opens an omnibar that searches your open tabs for the text you're entering. It's still two-part, but it's keyboard shortcut + text search instead of visually identifying the correct tab and clicking on it.
50901 10y ago
So you need an app because OS X's window manager is terrible.
- jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
  The window manager is not semantically aware that a particular tab in a particular window in a particular browser is the canonical navigation target for switching to a particular app. A first class platform-native app provides this.
knight17 10y ago
We can move tabs to new window. In that the task switcher will be able to go to the window directly.
sixothree 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment. Also typing 'facebook' into the address bar of FireFox the first result will be to switch to the facebook tab.