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by donmcronald 897 days ago
Firefox on Android is worse experience than Chrome too, at least for this app. The app is harder to install (no prompt), the icon looks worse, and the icon has a Firefox badge on it.

I wonder if that's down to config for the PWA or a Firefox shortcoming. Anyone know?
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amadeuspagel 897 days ago
> and the icon has a Firefox badge on it

This is something enforced by android. If every app was able to pin apps to the homescreen without such a badge, phishing would be too easy ... add something that looks like a bank app to the homescreen, get people to type in their password ...

It's not fair, since that's not true for chrome, but there's no obvious solution, other then I guess having some sort of "super trustworthy" status for a few other browsers like firefox.

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benkaiser 896 days ago
At least with Nova launcher, you can "edit" a PWA icon once it's on the home screen and un-check the badge to make it look more seamless.
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