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Mozilla asks people to contribute ideas on "Mozilla Connect", but then chooses to ignore most of the top-rated ideas. To be fair, better tab management is first
by amanzi 2y ago
Mozilla asks people to contribute ideas on "Mozilla Connect", but then chooses to ignore most of the top-rated ideas. To be fair, better tab management is first and third of the list, so they are looking to improve that one. But PWAs is second on the list, and there's no mention of this in their announcement. Bringing back proper PWA support seems to align perfectly with Mozilla's mission, so it blows me away why they aren't actively working on it or talking about it.
The other things mentioned are just features that I would expect to keep improving over time, but are nothing groundbreaking.
- altairprime 2y agoPWAs, as in "File > Save Website As... > website.exe" on a PC?
- cpeterso 2y agoThe "PWA support" that people are clamoring for is the option to open a web page shortcut in a browser window without an address bar.
- tredre3 2y agoThat's a big part of it, but PWA offers more than that! For example it has facilities for caching the web application so that it can work offline. They can also register URL handlers on the system, which is very useful.
- finack 2y agoPrograms that don't require an entire web browser to run can already do all of those things.
- gsuuon 2y agoThey can also do a lot of other things that a browser's sandbox would not allow
- finack 2y agoUntil Google decides to give developers the ability to let the browser invade the rest of the system, which, in six months, will suddenly be necessary for everyone to do things like bank online and pay utility bills.