A few months back Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's requests to do
Similarly, Rubino says web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks – though the ‘new tab’ button will be replaced with a button to open a normal Firefox window.
I read that as the tab bar still being there, but no ability to open more tabs.
Well, given that that doesn’t explicitly mention the tab bar, and that my quote does, I think you can still hold out hope that it will not be visible :)
So - they added what a single .desktop file can do, but didn’t make it so the tabbar can be hidden (without botchy CSS).
It’s not even finished yet, who knows what will happen to the tab bar.
Edit: in fact, looks like they explicitly said that it wouldn’t be included.
Well, they explicitly stated they want it to feel like FF, including the tabbar.
Where does it say “including the tabbar”? I even see the following in the Connect post:
I read that as the tab bar still being there, but no ability to open more tabs.
Well, given that that doesn’t explicitly mention the tab bar, and that my quote does, I think you can still hold out hope that it will not be visible :)
Aren’t the whole point of PWAs that they feel like a native app, like one that can be installed on your android/desktop?
I hope they include an option to hide the tab bar.
Yes. That’s the main point I’m criticizing.
I don’t catch on fast lol sorry. It’s a very stupid thing tbh, mozilla’s shooting its foot too much these days.