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by jfrunyon 1833 days ago
Firefox doesn't support PWA and has no plans to. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682593#c8
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Note that PWA is a concept, not a specific set of features or APIs. This makes a lot of this discussion confusing and mostly meaningless. Furthermore this bug is about a browser feature. The similar "PWA" API here would be https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/displa... which is supported by Firefox for Android so it isn't like Firefox won't support "PWA" as a whole and will reject all of the related APIs.

And remember that PWA is Progressive Web Application. The P is from Progressive Enhancement[1]. This means that missing an API or two doesn't mean that your browser doesn't support PWAs. It just means that some PWAs will have less functions or give a less "app-like" experience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

TL;DR that bug is mostly meaningless, the underlying APIs are what matter.

"Sure, they don't support PWAs, but they support pieces of PWAs, so really they support PWAs"