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by oldcynic 3040 days ago
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.
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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.

Prism/webxulrunner iirc