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I've been using this extension for a while, not bad so far but the big plus for me is the possibility to "install" any website as a PWA, making the website containerised and not messing with the normal browser (like Google cross logins)

I've also dedicated a user guide to install FirefoxPWA for my own PWA but generic and easy enough for the average user I think, at:

https://collanon.com/en/installation#firefox-desktop

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I've been running firefox like this manually for years. My method for this is basically just create a profile for any service I want to run standalone. Works great

1. Create a profile for the app you want to run...e.g. Spotify. Set the home bag

2. Create a startup file for your Firefox/Profile combo, e.g.

$ cat .local/share/applications/Music.desktop

[Desktop Entry]

Categories=Music;X-AudioPlayer;AudioVideo;Spotify

Exec=/usr/bin/firefox --class=musicplayer -P music

Icon=Music-icon

StartupWMClass=musicplayer

StartupNotify=false

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Name=Music

Comment=Firefox music container

ICE is a good way of doing basically this, including creating the profile and giving it a “hide everything” userChrome.css, when you use Firefox: https://github.com/peppermintos/ice

Luckily this add-on makes this possibility effortless

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