Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible
Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible
We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc
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Firefox doesn't support pwas
8 4 ReplyFirefox on Desktop doesn't support PWAs
Apparently Firefox on Android does
15 0 ReplyA PWA installed with Firefox on Android does not appear in the app launcher, but only on the home screen. I don't know whether this is the fault of Firefox or Android but it's a major flaw.
4 0 ReplyHmmmm. I can see how that's not ideal and how it would bother some people.
It really just adds a shortcut right? How hard would it be to add a second shortcut in the app launcher?
2 0 ReplyIt would need to be registered as an app, and a shortcut isn't an app.
1 0 ReplyOk I understand. Well I guess it seems like there is room for improvement then.
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Partly android, but a custom launcher could solve it themselves
1 0 ReplyI'm currently developing a PWA, have it installed on my Android phone through Firefox, and it appears both on my homescreen and in the launcher. (Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Launcher).
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There is a project on github that adds that function.
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