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Exactly, this is the only reason why I don’t use anything other than Chrome. While I really want to switch to FF. Chrome “add to desktop” does make website almost as like a desktop app and without unnecessary tabbar and stuff.

I wish firefox could do that.

That being said, I don’t use any native app at all other than a terminal emulator. Just terminal + vscode + chrome.



For what it's worth, Firefox used to be able to do this (with a few manipulations). At some point, that feature was killed, because apparently nobody (except me) was using it :/

It's a shame, because I would really like to be able to move my chat clients out of the Firefox UI.


I REALLY want an Electron/NWJS build on top of Firefox. I would scrap chrome altogether both for personal use and for building "desktop" apps.




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