• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it was “do not want to support” it was more of a “cannot support”.

    Only so much developer time to go around, have to pick your battles.

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      1 year ago

      Also, mobile Firefox has supported PWAs for a long time. I wouldn’t say PWAs on desktop would be useless, but they make much more sense on mobile than on desktop.

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        1 year ago

        Only use I’ve found for them on desktop personally is the web interfaces for local hardware. I did use it when I was playing with stable diffusion for a bit but never fine tuned it because stable diffusion kept crashing.

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        1 year ago

        I like them as task bar icons…

        Have to use an extension for that.

        It’s a native feature of Edge, and a buggy version exists in Chrome.

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        1 year ago

        PWAs are useful on desktop if there’s web apps you use a lot every day. For example, some people at my Workplace are in Google Docs a lot, so a Google Docs PWA would be useful. Separate taskbar/launcher icon, separate window in Alt-Tab, and at least in Chrome, Google Docs has some basic support working while offline.

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      1 year ago

      Not really, they dropped them wuth the massive layoffs during which they dropped various projects (or more like the entire teams behind them) and increased executive pay… :/