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by crazygringo 906 days ago
Indeed:

> Firefox and Safari do not support installing PWAs on any desktop operating systems... Chrome and Edge support installing PWAs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Chromebooks. [1]

Any idea what Mozilla's motivation is here? (Apple's at least is easy to understand, even if you disagree.)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

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> Firefox and Safari do not support installing PWAs on any desktop operating systems... Chrome and Edge support installing PWAs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Chromebooks.

That's not actually true, MDN needs updating. PWAs are installable as standalone apps since macOS Sonoma and Safari 17 - https://webkit.org/blog/14445/webkit-features-in-safari-17-0....

There are workarounds for using Firefox web apps: https://forums.puri.sm/t/firefox-web-apps/21499/