Firefox discontinued its work toward PWA on desktop.
Mozilla seemed to have discontinued the development of supporting Progressive Web Apps (PWA) on desktop versions of Firefox.
One of the recent features of the web was the ability for websites to be upgraded into Progressive Web Apps on phone or desktop.
While a part of the beauty of the web was that users can expect a fairly consistent experience across different browsers, every browser has its set of differences.
The latest differentiator between Firefox and Chromium-based browsers, through Fast Company, was that Mozilla appeared to be dropping a long-in-development feature called “site-specific browsers” which never quite grew beyond experimental status.
Effectively, Firefox’s site-specific browsers allowed a site to open in a Progressive Web App-like window, but lacked things like add-ons support.
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Following the pushback from the community, Mozilla explained that the site-specific browsers weren’t being used often enough in order to justify the feature’s continued upkeep.
Going further, Mozilla explained that they hoped to signal that PWA support wasn’t coming to desktop Firefox anytime soon.
Instead, Mozilla was turning its focus to features that they believed would be more beneficial to their users.
Firefox’s announcement came at a time wherein Chromium-based browsers had pushed toward making PWA appeared in the usual list used to uninstall or manage apps on Windows.
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