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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, some of these questions made more sense for mobile than desktop. For example, I want to split tabs on desktop, but I don't on mobile. Likewise, I don't really care about PWAs on mobile (there's usually an app with a better experience), but I do care on desktop because that isn't a thing on my system (Linux).

I think it would've been better had they broken them into groups for mobile and desktop.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Desktop PWAs are easy as you can just create a shortcut

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Yup. A lot of services don't offer official apps on Linux, so I rely on webpages.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope. A PWA gives you a browser window with no menu bars and the icon of the age vs the browser. It's treated as a separate entity in your start bar for task switching.

Many of us still use Chromium for that one feature, while using Firefox for everything else.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can do that with command line arguments

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not with FF. Well, not without massive CSS app customization and separate profiles which is not officially supported.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes you can. Try running Firefox --help

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 11 months ago

No, you cannot. There have been tickets open about this for ages. You are talking about opening a URL, not a PWA.