How is it that Firefox *still* has no progressive web app support on desktop? This is a deal-breaker for me as I have a number of web services I want to run as their own 'apps', not hidden in a browser tab.

There is a third-party browser extension, *but*:

1. It installs it's own copy of Firefox in another directory to host the PWAs. Apart from the fact this seems wasteful, there is no indication that this copy will be updated properly.

2. It completely isolates the PWAs from the normal browser profile (arguably also a feature, but I'd like to be able to choose).

3. Links in the PWA, such as to websites in my webmail, open inside the PWA rather than being forwarded back to the main browser.

4. It's not 'official', and I don't like depending on something like this where I can't rely on Mozilla developers to be careful not to break it.

There is a tool that works on Manjaro called webapp-manager developed by the people at Linux Mint, but that's Linux only and one of the use cases is for my wall-mounted Surface Pro which runs Windows 11 (I also use this machine for the likes of Netflix/Prime etc in full res, hence why I haven't Linuxed it so that's not an option).

So, back to a Chromium derivative (probably Brave) it is. Chromium itself is out because I use the sync features. :(

Tools I mentioned if anyone is interested in trying them:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/

https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager (also available in the Arch User Repository)

Rant over.

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