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by amadeuspagel 899 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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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.