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> no PWA mode (impossible to put an icon of a website to your homescreen, which will open the website without a browser UI)

Firefox for Android has this. Are you referring to Firefox for desktop?

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I think a PWA mode is useful in all cases on all devices. But most of users use my program on desktops.

On my Firefox Desktop on Manjaro Linux, I was able to save a link and set it to no toolbars. No magic settings done.

The Firefox team has more or less said that the feature is not coming to desktop. I think a primitive version was hidden behind a flag, but even that is going to be dropped.

That's bad. I use it with Edgium for Spotify and it's neat, it behaves like a desktop application.

I use it for about half a dozen apps. Azure Portal, Youtube Music, SoundCloud, Google Cloud Platform, Twitter, Teamwork, and this chat app I maintain. And I keep them pinned to my taskbar. I love this feature.

Do you know the reasoning behind this?

> As Gijs says, we have limited resources and so have to spend those resources on work that appears to have the most impact on our mission. Based on the available data we have (both the research we performed as well as looking at how Chrome and Edge's implementations are being received) PWAs on desktop fall behind other work right now. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593

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