Closed Bug 1690972 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Using sites as a separate desktop apps (inspired by but not limited to PWAs)

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1602117

People

(Reporter: s, Unassigned)

Details

I've migrated from another browser recently to Firefox and the only feature I've been missing since then is installing a site as a separate desktop app.

Chromium and Gnome Web both have this feature.

The example user scenario is as follows.

  1. User visits a site which act like an app (it could be implemented as PWA but it's not necessary), i.e. Mastodon web UI, Twitter web UI, Netflix, corporate CRM, etc.
  2. User decides to use this site as a separate app. Reasons for this decision could be: user have been advised to that via a hint in Fx's UI (PWA only), user have been advised to do that by a user manual of a web-based service (CRM, Media Library, Photo Library, etc), user is educated enough to make this decision on their own when this seems a convenient way to use a site.
  3. User clicks a button in Fx's menu to install the site as a desktop app.
  4. A special desktop shortcut for the app is being created by Fx.
  5. Clicking on the desktop shortcut launches a new Fx window having no UI elements except window decorations and opens the site.
  6. The newly launched window must behave as a completely separate app from an OS' point of view. This includes: a window icon, a window class (Linux Desktop), and any other behaviors. This must result in avoiding window grouping with other Fx's windows and quitting/closing all opened Fx windows mustn't result in closing the app window.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: General → Audio/Video: Playback
Product: Firefox → Core
Component: Audio/Video: Playback → General
Product: Core → Firefox

This feature was names SSB, but it's currently on pause (no plan to implement short term)

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #2)

This feature was names SSB, but it's currently on pause (no plan to implement short term)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1602117 ***

I don't see "on pause". I see won't fix. Those seem very different to me.

yes, but wontfix are not eternal, features are re-evaluated periodically. For now it's a wontfix since it's not a target for this year at least.

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:sylvestre / :calixte / :marco for bugbug] from comment #1)

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

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