Firefox is about to reintroduce support for Web Apps... does it make sense to create them with "AM"?

[ivan-hc]

According to this https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefox-nightly-supports-web-apps-taskbar-tabs Firefox is about to reintroduce support for Web Apps, or PWAs if you prefer. This is a feature that was used in the past and then removed, and currently only Chromium-based browsers and the Firefox Android client are able to create them.

For my part, since "AM" exists, I have always introduced this support based on the method used by Linux Mint's Webapp-manager or Peppermint's ICE: creating custom profiles for Firefox, complete with icon and preconfigured settings for that purpose. Not exactly the same result, but it's a support that I cared a lot about (before switching to containers).

In the database there are 9 ready, those with the name starting with ffwa-, and others can be created via the -t option.

As far as I could, I could only get this to work with Firefox, and not forks. But a future native Firefox implementation will probably be available in forks, by default. This would seem to make the support in "AM" useless.

I ask you...

[ivan-hc]

In this survey, 50% of users do not want the removal. This means that there are users who find it useful to build profiles for Firefox in this way.

I confess that I am in that 50% who voted for the removal... but I cannot ignore individuals and their needs.

After all, many features of "AM" were introduced at the request of individuals, and where there were conflicts I always tried to agree with the parties. This is not the case.

I will keep this feature, given the usefulness that those few have found in it.

I would like, however, to hear from those who voted "NO" what you like about this feature and how it has improved your workflow.

[ivan-hc]

In one year, tons of things are changed in AM, geared only toward apps: the testing that was never done, and the feedback that wasn't received regarding this support, as well as recent changes to Firefox that made these profiles redundant.

I have done some tests lately, and I was unable to install a ffwa. Too much is changed, and I have not found the root of the problem. You can reproduce it yourself (I have tested it in AppMan mode, and it was enough).

I've decided to remove this support from AM.

This database will be for apps only, no longer for web apps.

#2398

I apologize.