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PWAs on Android? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Is there a way to install web apps on mobile using Firefox? I'm not looking for shortcuts that open in new browser tabs. I would like to run some sites as installed, full-screen apps. The excellent PWA addon works great for desktop, but I imagine it would not be possible to duplicate this on mobile based on how the addon runs.

Any thoughts? I'm open to using another app or browser that is built on Firefox if needed

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[–] odium@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

No need for any add ons. This is all on base Firefox on android.

Go to the website you want to install as a PWA and click on the three dots next to the URL.

Add to home screen

My Firefox version is 121.1.0 and my android version is Samsung's flavor of android 13.

[–] leaskovski@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a shame that Firefox can be a bit shit at opening the installed pwa sometimes. I'm sure I stumbled across a bug on their bugzilla for the issue, but I can't find it now. The problem is highly annoying.

[–] nicocool84@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Oh it's mot just me then? It does feel to me that it's actually slower to open a pwa-installed app than just opening the website in Firefox (lineageos is my ROM).

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