Reviews for Progressive Web Apps for Firefox
Progressive Web Apps for Firefox by Filip Štamcar
30 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by tobias hochguertel, 4 years agoWorks so far well, but has the downside, that it runs complete seperated from the desktop firefox instance. I use it do have gmail as APP icon, and window seperated next to Firefox Browser open, but it has the downside that all Links which I click get open in the PWA instance, and not get handeled by the operation system setuped default app for links. I'm sure in the future that will get solved.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Squeaky Pancakes, 5 years agoWorks really well, better than electron apps most of the time.
My one problem is it for some reason ignores XDG Portals on Linux meaning that KDE users are stuck with the terrible GTK file picker.Developer response
posted 5 years agoYou can enable XDG portals by setting `widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal` to `true` in `about:config` inside PWA profile (you can open `about:config` by pressing F6 and then typing it into the popup).
It seems Firefox by default never uses XDG portals, but distros with KDE instead set some environment variable (`GTK_USE_PORTAL=1`) that makes Firefox use portals. However, because FirefoxPWA launches the default Mozilla-provided Firefox without setting any additional environment variables, Firefox won't use portals unless you manually enable them in `about:config`. - Rated 4 out of 5by Red, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by maxens_wlfr, 5 years agoI can't use it, it always says "Failed to parse PWA manifest", am I doing anything wrong ?
Developer response
posted 5 years agoDoes it happen on all websites or just one? If just one, maybe the website is broken. Try to uncheck "Use the manifest for determining app properties" when installing it. If it happens on all websites, please open an issue on GitHub. - Rated 4 out of 5by Gilganyx, 5 years ago