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Maybe a little over a year ago, I switched from Chrome to Firefox (phone, desktop, etc...). I didn't really see much difference, and I liked using Pocket. Plus,
by mbreese 5y ago
Maybe a little over a year ago, I switched from Chrome to Firefox (phone, desktop, etc...). I didn't really see much difference, and I liked using Pocket. Plus, I wanted to support Firefox.
Fast forward to last week and I'm considering switching back. It's not because of any sites that Firefox hasn't supported. It's because I recently needed to start using a webapp to access to email from $WORK. They locked up email and now my local Mail.app client won't connect to $WORK.
My preferred way of handling this is to wrap the webapp as a desktop shortcut, so the entire site is wrapped in it's own window, etc. I also have a couple of other work webapps that I like to treat as applications. Chrome makes this easy/possible. Firefox does not.
This used to be something I did with Firefox, but now, it's not possible (or at least easily, on a Mac). Firefox was something you could embed. And now, I have no idea.
Small little features like this are where Firefox starts to lose users. Right now I have both running, but I can't see that lasting long.
- toastal 5y agoFirefox 86 removed SSB (site-specific browser) because people weren't using it; also it was behind a flag in about:config no one knew about.
- aidog 5y agoI'm still bitter about that.
- mbreese 5y agoI'm glad to know that I wasn't just imagining things. I could have sworn that I could do this a few years ago. But I wasn't sure that I wasn't just mis-remembering.
- toastal 5y agoI learned about it because I happened across a post from Peppermint OS leveraging it heavily to get lightweight 'apps'. Unless you were following specific posts about the feature, you would never have known about it. SSB had bugs for sure (and sot much dev attention was given), but it could have been a great alternative to Electron in a PWA landscape.
- sundarurfriend 5y agoI don't know about the details other than from your comment, but if true, that sounds like a scene from a satirical TV show. "We hid this flag in a place most people won't find it. Oh, you didn't find it and use it anyway? Fine, we're taking it away instead of making it more visible. There, that'll teach ya!"