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RockstarSprain ◴[] No.44546421[source]
Would love to give Firefox a chance but one thing that stops me (apart from occasional website loading bugs) is inability to install PWAs. Not sure why it’s not implemented like it has been for a long time in Chrome and all its forks.

I have found a 3rd party extension that claims to facilitate this (0) but still feel uncomfortable to use this for privacy reasons.

(0) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pwas-for-fire...

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rs186 ◴[] No.44546529[source]
If you really care, it's ok to just Firefox for the majority of your web browsing activities but use Chrome or a fork for PWA.

Although using Firefox increasingly means a worse experience, including:

* infinite loop of Cloudflare verification * inferior performance compared to Chrome (page loading, large page scrolling) * subtle bugs (e.g. audio handling) * WebUSB support

I have personally run into all of them. Some are under Firefox's control but others are not. I do still use Firefox for most websites unless it's technically not possible, but unfortunately the exception is happening more and more.

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1. bagacrap ◴[] No.44551708[source]
Probably wants to share state though (cookie jar, history, password manager, etc)

The bottom line is that Google invests more in Chrome than Mozilla can afford to invest in Ff, so the latter will likely never catch up in features or performance.