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What does it mean to install a webapp? Is it different than Firefox's "Add to Home" button?
by ydlr 5y ago
What does it mean to install a webapp?
Is it different than Firefox's "Add to Home" button?
- Daedren 5y agoThat's what it is. But only Firefox Mobile supports it, this extension is about the desktop version.
- jeroenhd 5y agoActually, on mobile it is. Which infuriates me more than it should. There are two ways to link to an application in Firefox: one just creates a shortcut ("Add to home") which opens the browser. The other opens a full screen application, like PWAs are designed to do. When I hit the install button, what I really want is the latter but occasionally PWA detection seems to fail and installs a shortcut instead. In desktop Firefox, Mozilla has decided to can this idea and not implement it. There was a bug open for this in bugzilla, but that was closed as WONTFIX.
- charsi 5y ago"Add to home screen" is the option you'll get if the web app doesn't have PWA support. If PWA is supported firefox mobile will show an "Install" option instead. This works more like a native app. When launched there will be no URL bar and the status bar will take the main colour of the PWA.