Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web [progressive web apps]
fastcompany.com
fastcompany.com
Firefox just dropped the single site browser feature. The thing that was hidden under a flag for the executable, that you had to actually dig for quite a bit to find. The thing that didn't work that well to begin with. Link in your site that redirects to another site? Well, your window is now a... multiple site browser, because it's going to stay in there.
But no, surely it's Firefox moving away from a key piece of the open web, and not because the feature never worked that well in the first place. Or that barely anyone used it.
Eliminates all the buttons, and gets a custom title.
It could be better and I know the same exists and is more popular for Chrome, but I wanted the absolute lowest CPU possible for MacOS.
There's also the pros and cons of auth/cookie isolation. You'll need to log in to Slack again. But if you use it for, say, Facebook it will work like the isolation feature in FF.
I don't understand how these article writers are doing more good than harm.
Most powerful? Define powerful here. If we're talking about convenience, I guess, but even then, a standard webpage is fine. In terms of amount of things it can do, no way. Not having access to a file system or standard sockets immediately disqualifies it from being the second most powerful option in my mind.
Maybe the word "powerful" is being used differently here, but I don't know what definition they could be using.
Off-topic, but how does the exact same URL get submitted again within a day? Do you need a certain level of karma to do that?