A few months back Firefox announced it was finally adding support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) after years of ignoring its own user's requests to do
Fullscreen will hide the window decorations, but that won’t solve the use case of “behaving like a desktop application”.
I use PWAs for websites that are applications (Outlook, Teams, Spotify etc). I want these windows to be dedicated to those applications and nothing else. They should appear in my window list on alt+tab, not be able to navigate away to something else etc.
Ah I see your point now. So is that how Outlook behaves now if launched via Web on chromium browsers? I’m still using the installed version, and am on Firefox now (playing around with Brave just this week).
Yes, if you want it to. There is a pwa button that appears on pwa supported sites that lets you toggle between app window mode and normal browse tab mode.
Fullscreen will hide the window decorations, but that won’t solve the use case of “behaving like a desktop application”. I use PWAs for websites that are applications (Outlook, Teams, Spotify etc). I want these windows to be dedicated to those applications and nothing else. They should appear in my window list on alt+tab, not be able to navigate away to something else etc.
Ah I see your point now. So is that how Outlook behaves now if launched via Web on chromium browsers? I’m still using the installed version, and am on Firefox now (playing around with Brave just this week).
Yes, if you want it to. There is a pwa button that appears on pwa supported sites that lets you toggle between app window mode and normal browse tab mode.