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What exactly is the motivation for this project? I read the readme but I'm still at a loss. If my company chose to build PWAs, I would choose to use a browser

What exactly is the motivation for this project? I read the readme but I'm still at a loss. If my company chose to build PWAs, I would choose to use a browser that supports it in the way that is required. It would be totally bonkers to choose something like this just so that I can run them on firefox. Especially considering that this quite literally doesn't support half the feature set that might make PWAs desirable over a native app(like access to a lot of native APIs). Even if we wanted to build PWAs, and then for some weird reason needed to use firefox, then the lack of support for them in firefox would be more likely to lead to not building PWAs instead of trying to wrangle firefox into something it doesn't really support. What am I missing here?

sph 5y ago
Mainly the goal is to create standalone Firefox apps, as a lightweight replacement to Electron apps, with their own permissions and desktop notifications. Chromium/Edge make this super easy, and I use it to create standalone versions of Youtube Music, Fastmail, YNAB, WhatsApp so that they share the same Firefox process, instead of having four separate Electron apps written by third-parties that are just a fancy way of wrapping a website in their own window And for some reason, Mozilla isn't interested of having this feature in their own browser.
pgcj_poster 5y ago
In addition to developers, many web applications have users. If a website is available as a PWA, some Firefox users might want to install it.
d3nj4l 5y ago
If you open Spotify in Chrome (or any Chromium browser), you'll get a little popup, like this: https://i.imgur.com/vw5diI2.png https://i.imgur.com/vw5diI2.png If you click "Install", you'll get an app-like Spotify icon, it'll show up in applications, you can Cmd+Tab/ Alt+Tab to it with its icon, so on. It's basically an app - but it's running in a separate Chrome window and managed by the browser. Electron but you don't have to install a copy of Chrome every time, basically. (Also, if you're like me and use Brave, this is better in every way.)
indymike 5y ago
> What am I missing here? Firefox does support PWA. This is a browser extension for packaging and installing like a native app. Pwa is a web spec and it is very nice.

sph 5y ago

Mainly the goal is to create standalone Firefox apps, as a lightweight replacement to Electron apps, with their own permissions and desktop notifications. Chromium/Edge make this super easy, and I use it to create standalone versions of Youtube Music, Fastmail, YNAB, WhatsApp so that they share the same Firefox process, instead of having four separate Electron apps written by third-parties that are just a fancy way of wrapping a website in their own window And for some reason, Mozilla isn't interested of having this feature in their own browser.

pgcj_poster 5y ago

In addition to developers, many web applications have users. If a website is available as a PWA, some Firefox users might want to install it.

d3nj4l 5y ago

If you open Spotify in Chrome (or any Chromium browser), you'll get a little popup, like this: https://i.imgur.com/vw5diI2.png https://i.imgur.com/vw5diI2.png If you click "Install", you'll get an app-like Spotify icon, it'll show up in applications, you can Cmd+Tab/ Alt+Tab to it with its icon, so on. It's basically an app - but it's running in a separate Chrome window and managed by the browser. Electron but you don't have to install a copy of Chrome every time, basically. (Also, if you're like me and use Brave, this is better in every way.)

indymike 5y ago

> What am I missing here? Firefox does support PWA. This is a browser extension for packaging and installing like a native app. Pwa is a web spec and it is very nice.