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I’ve used Nativefier for years and am excited for this new feature described in the release notes:

> Web apps let you use any website like an app, complete with an icon in the Dock for faster access and a simplified toolbar for easier browsing.

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The first app I enabled it for is Slack. The calling functionality doesn't seem enabled there but everything else looked and felt great. Finally, don't need to use all my cutting-edge tech's capabilities just to run a bunch of chromiums side by side.

Is that the PWA install feature thing?

Windows/Chrome has that feature. For example accessing https://github.com shows an install button, which creates icon for direct access and allows GitHub to have a dedicated window and notifications.

https://i.imgur.com/IjxsMpA.png

Edge's implementation is better.

Are these separate instances/containers with regards to cache and cookies and such? I would love to have this because I have multiple Atlassian accounts I need to juggle and it is a pain today.

Safari (like Chrome) now has profiles for this also.

Yes it has its own cookies etc

Like Fluid, kinda

Chrome has supported those PWA shortcuts in macOS at least several years...

But every time you opened one it would also open a separate Chrome window that you had to keep open, which made them kind of useless.

How so?

I can close Chrome and any PWA application independently.

None of them have to be kept open. Even for notifications, if I allow.

And I just found out I can even cast the entire window to my TV, which is cool https://i.imgur.com/efF1moy.png

Total aside, but if you have a Mac laptop and an AppleTV, you can easily mirror or extend your desktop to that apple tv over wifi.

And Zoom can pretend to be an AirPlay destination so you can share your phone screen on a zoom call via your desktop. M

Yeah I've used that feature on my wife's mac, it's pretty cool.

First thing I did was set up Discord. 5x reduction in memory usage.

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