[joemccall86]

While there may be some important technological differences here, from an end-user perspective they already achieved this 5 years ago (https://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/chrome-app-launcher-develo...), removed it 3 years ago (https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...), and now they're adding it back in.

I like that we're moving forward, but on the desktop this just feels like, "Hey, look what you can do again!"

[oldcynic]

I completely forget its name but wasn't there was a Mozilla project to do basically this a dozen or more years back? Obviously without the benefits of HTML 5 etc.

[predakanga]

Yep, Mozilla Prism - there have been plenty of similar efforts both first- and third-party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser

They may even retain some use - on OS X, for example, you used to get issues with PWAs being considered part of the main browser process for cmd+tab and cmd+`. I've had to use SSBs to overcome this in the past.

[synotna]

Prism/webxulrunner iirc