• t0m5k1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    What’s the Firefox equivalent to:

    Brave.exe --app="http://lemmy.world"

    I use this a lot as I detest electron based applications. Mozilla dropped prism years ago and before that there was xulrunner and you cant open a JavaScript popup window without clicking a bookmark.

    When Firefox has this very basic function perhaps I’ll consider moving.

    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      This just changes the OS chrome on a browser tab right ? I generally dislike electron apps, but when they’re literally just a browser tab I’d rather just leave it in the browser.

      • t0m5k1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        2 years ago

        This just changes the OS chrome on a browser tab right ?

        No this just opens the website in it’s own window so it looks similar to an electron app, another way to do this is to open chrome://apps, drag any bookmark to this window/tab and right click to create icons.

        It does nothing to the “OS” of the browser.

        • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          92·
          2 years ago

          Dude, “os chrome” refers to the window, as in the frame around the webpage.

          So yes, it’s like a browser tab with a hidden url bar. Amazing.

      • t0m5k1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I used this for awhile but it’s more of a framework that requires vcredist and a local install of pwaforff binary to work around the short comings of mozilla pulling the plumbing out of the browser.

        It’s a good workaround can have it’s issues when one part receives an update that the rest isn’t aware of.