Ben

If you don’t know then install it and find out. Back in early 2000 it was the single greatest advancement in browser technology brought by Opera.

Whilst I’d like to see some kind of revival, or even revolution, in the browser market here - it does look as if Mozilla are setting out a future business plan which simply does not include Firefox… and if Firefox dips below 2% it will be sidelined as an alternative browser no longer supported.

#1 Gesturefly

'nuff said.

Firefox will not force an update - but it will tell you to restart to continue AFTER it has been updated… learn to control your updates, don’t use Firefox as a Snap if that’s what’s going on.

First step to log in is to paste some URL - and https://lemmy.world/ doesn’t work for that… another hurdle to exclude anyone not advanced enough?

Very doubtful.

Is this thread intended for 1. Android/mobile users 2. iOS/mobile users 3. People with computers/mouse/keyboard or what? It seems most Lemmy threads are pretty exclusively aimed at mobile users.

2 extra/webapp-manager 1.3.4-2 (91.6 KiB 5.3 MiB) (Installed) Run websites as if they were apps

This works fine for me… I had 4 browsers installed last year, so had a variety - like Plex/Overseer/Sonarr opening with Falkon browser and translate with Chrome.

Haha marketing is what it is… a joke I made up some 30 years ago was that, despite what we see on the surface - the evidence proves that women are disgusting, dirty, fat, ugly animals that need a vast array of products to be created so that they can go outside without offending everyone…

So yes, you’re right to find this ridiculous and offensive - but at the heart of it is simple greed, which is the real meaning of the American Dream.

Fundamental error - as usual with Windows news.

These ‘Start Menu Ads’ aren’t rolling out to everyone, I have zero ‘Start Menu Ads’. In fact, I have Zero Ads in my operating system.

Why must Windows news always assume that everyone runs Windows? Isn’t this the main bug with all operating systems?

https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

I was under the impression that ALL websites are basically a kind of webapp. Some (like Lazada) are what you’d call ‘Progressive Web Applications’.

I use Webapp-Manager on Linux, which will set up a shortcut to launch any website/url as a Webapp… at the time of creation, you can choose Firefox or some other browser as the backend (works well for sites that dont work in Firefox).

So for me, the BBC Radio website is a webapp, Overseerr and Sonarr are webapps too.

Doesn’t Ctrl+D do that?

I’d go with ‘session manager’ rather than bookmarking… Sounds like you just have too many tabs to manage easily.

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Surely webapp-manager is the way to create webapps on Linux.

Also the extension Pop-Out can pop out any webpage to look like a webapp (but not with it’s own profile etc).

The comment ‘It’s a wav file in Jellyfin’ makes little sense.

There must exist a file, which is not contained by Jellyfin but instead exists in the filesystem. Is this the same file downloaded from the Youtube you mention?

Why not share the actual file, or actual youtube link?

Try Mouse Gestures - from Opera some 15 years ago, I always close a tab with the mouse (drawing an 'L' shape) so that I never forget to close. To close en masse, you can simply right click and 'close all to the right/left' or 'all other tabs'.

If they're mixed up, then scroll through and mark what you want, then delete what you didn't mark.

Not really paying attention, no problem here.

I did enjoy Vivaldi for that reason, though, you could do ‘hide UI’. Whilst all the controls/tabs/URLbar were still there, they got hidden. It LOOKED exactly like a webapp - but without creating a separate profile for the website in question.

If I want to isolate (which I generally do with a separate user/profile) then I’ll do it that way… so if I really wanted a separate ‘Amazon’ application, it’d be firefox -p Amazon.

Having a separate shortcut in Firefox to HIDE UI would definitely be nice.

I still need someone to fully explain to me why they want some way to pretend a website is an application.

Especially as, when I tried using PWA (so I could open, for example, Lazada PWA as if it was a specific application instead of just Lazada running in Firefox) the only benefit was that - erm - it worked in it’s own profile, without any add-ons from the main browser profile.

For this, I can simply use the WebApp manager https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager - yet I find that right now I only have a single one which is in use (that’s the Plex Web interface which I bound to open with a mouse gesture).

Take that away and - well, I just hit menu, type ‘ple’ and see the Firefox bookmark - Enter to open that.

Hardly really worth the resources and efforts for a tiny minority when a browser is struggling to survive.