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Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible (letter.open-web-advocacy.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox on Desktop doesn't support PWAs

Apparently Firefox on Android does

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

A PWA installed with Firefox on Android does not appear in the app launcher, but only on the home screen. I don't know whether this is the fault of Firefox or Android but it's a major flaw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hmmmm. I can see how that's not ideal and how it would bother some people.

It really just adds a shortcut right? How hard would it be to add a second shortcut in the app launcher?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would need to be registered as an app, and a shortcut isn't an app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ok I understand. Well I guess it seems like there is room for improvement then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Partly android, but a custom launcher could solve it themselves