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You're talking about PWAs, right? It's still bizarre to be that the feature was dropped. PWAs are the top idea on their feedback site as well.

I suppose while it has your attention, please vote for that feature https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...

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Crazy that they removed it. It works well on Firefox for Android, and it used to work fine in Firefox desktop too.

Mozilla seems to stray further and further every day. Some stuff is great, but like we still can't install whatever extensions we want on Firefox android without deeply jumping into dev features.

I currently use the Lynket browser (which can leverage Chrome Custom Tabs to present each Firefox tab as an Android app per tab) and shortcuts to web links to get most of the feel of a PWA. Would recommend it if you're interested. :)

What the hell? When did this happen? PWAs are some of the most exciting developments in web development. Did they give any reasoning about this decision anywhere?

The reasoning was that their implementation was buggy, and added tech debt, and they didn't think that PWAs on Desktop were useful.

Yeah, I agree. I will love PWA support on Firefox desktop.

One recent example, I pay for Spotify, but recently I started to pay for YouTube Premium to get rid of ads in the native mobile app, and it comes with YouTube Music.

I try YouTube Music and seems fine, was thinking to ditch Spotify and save that money, but YT Music do not have a desktop app like Spotify, on desktop is just trough https://music.youtube.com and has PWA features like "install", notifications and stuff.

I'm used to have that Spotify icon on my desktop and open the app, and being a Firefox user, with YT Music I can't have that experience, I can add a shortcut to my desktop, but it opens as a tab with all my other stuff opened. I don't like it. I guess I will stick with Spotify because of that.

In Chrome desktop, which supports PWA, you can install music.youtube.com, will add a desktop icon, opens in a individual window without tab/address bar etc. Is awesome. But is Chrome.

I'm considering use YT Music with Ungoogled Chromium to get the PWA features.

This is what most people who want a 'desktop' YTM use these days, it's mainly a webwrapper but has some decent extensions built in to make it easier to use. https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music

I'm not a fan of PWAs, even despite being a fringe OS user for which many applications aren't available (FreeBSD). So while technically I would benefit from them, I don't use any.

I don't like the way web apps tie in with the pervasive tracking on the web, and the way they don't fit in well into the native UI and waste resources.

But it is indeed weird to remove the choice altogether.

I had no idea this was removed. Ugh that's really distressing.

Terrible disappointment for this. I can't give up this feature so I can't go Firefox. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593

Can't find a lot of info about this. Is it desktop support only that's been dropped?

I believe so.

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