Native PWA Support

[mauro-balades]

What feature would you like to see?

Native PWA support. Firefox doesn't have it by default so I was wondering if it could be added to Zen. This will be an an awesome feature.

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Linux

Additional context

No response

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[sidsharths1245]

There is an extension that adds this functionality.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/
I tried it but the zen theme/colour scheme doesn't apply to it and it also looks very janky. Native support on zen would be great.

To add, ut seems firefox may be working on this as well but I don't have ny expectations. They have a history of taking a bazillion years just to implement most basic features.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-create-the-best-support-for-web-apps-on-the/m-p/60561#M21220

[devniza]

"PWA for Firefox" is great but it's a whole other browser so your sessions and cookies are stored separately (correct me if I'm wrong). It should be possible for Zen to integrate this well with the right profile for the user.

[Lenni-builder]

Additionally this requires another browser instance which wastes ressources, especially on older/lower end hardware.

[ghost]

[Lenni-builder]

Why don't you start a new discussion about that? It makes this one a but cluttered.

[Lenni-builder]

Floorp, another Firefox fork, already has PWA support (even though it's Windows-only and shows things like a URL bar that PWAs in other browsers normally don't have) which you might be able to borrow from them.

[Samueru-sama]

The PWAs in floorp (and firedragon which is a fork) already work on linux and you can disable showing the URL bar.

[Lenni-builder]

The last time I checked neither of those features existed, but it's nice they added them. Do you still have access to the browser's menu/extensions when disabling the title bar (similar to how it is done in Chromium)?

[Samueru-sama]

The last time I checked neither of those features existed, but it's nice they added them. Do you still have access to the browser's menu/extensions when disabling the title bar (similar to how it is done in Chromium)?

I don't have access to the menus when the titlebar is disabled, but extensions still work and that is the main the reason I need PWAs.

Here you can see the discord PWA with vimium-c extension working (it is those key combinations that show up over clickable options) and no titlebar on firedragon (fork of floorp):

[devniza]

When I use Single Sign On (SSO), Firefox opens a window for authentication. (I was authenticating with Apple on Reddit).

A few adjustments could be made, such as removing the URL bar (preferably adding a toggle for users who would like to have it).

This could be what @Lenni-builder was referring to.

[Lenni-builder]

This was not really what I was referring to, what I meant was that the Floorp browser (Firefox based) has built-in PWA support that the Zen devs might be able to port over.

[Fauli1221]

Floorp has that feature built in though it is a bit buggy especially on Linux and therefore is disabled by default

[Lenni-builder]

I already wrote a comment suggesting forking that feature from Floorp before

[Fauli1221]

overlooked that thanks for mentioning it