Firefox: Mozilla is working on Progressive Web Apps (PWA) support

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Mozilla has been diligently at work recently to introduce highly requested features to its Firefox web browser. It launched one of these features, vertical tabs, in Firefox 136 already. Other features, including tab groups, are also on a good way and will be released in a future update.

Firefox already has an advantage in some areas feature-wise. The mobile version of Firefox, for example, supports browser extensions. Microsoft just recently introduced extensions for Edge on Android, but the feature is in beta and very limited. Google has never enabled extensions in the mobile version of Chrome.

Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

While Firefox has reached feature parity already in some regards or is beating its main competitors in other areas, it is still lagging behind in some areas. One of these is support for PWA.

Chromium-based browsers have supported Progressive Web Apps for a long time.

What are Progressive Web Apps (PWA)? Simply put, they move websites or services a bit out of the browser so that they work more like native applications. Means, you get window controls and functions, including the ability to pin PWAs to the taskbar or Start menu, responsiveness, offline support, and more.

Not every Internet user needs access to PWAs, but those who do or want that access, have a hard time using Firefox. While there is an extension for Firefox, called Progressive Web Apps for Firefox, that brings support, it is far from ideal.

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