Reviews for Progressive Web Apps for Firefox
Progressive Web Apps for Firefox by Filip Štamcar
Response by Filip Štamcar
Developer response
posted 9 months agoMake sure that both the extension and the native program are updated to 2.11.1, and then run "Patch profiles and runtime" from the extension settings. If you are still having issues, please comment on GitHub: https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox/issues/475
240 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Impromptu1300, 2 days agoI only wish it was made simpler.
Compare with Apple's web apps, which strike the best balance between reasonable customization and simplicity (i.e. I don't need any of the profile configurations and what not, I just want a working app that will work always; that will adjust to my system and blend in nicely with it, from showing the right (shape of the) icon to behavior).
Right now some web apps, after being closed, don't work. I have to relaunch them. And not all pages can be made to web apps. - Rated 5 out of 5by ff@n , 9 days agoThis is an impressive addon. This functionality is present in chromium/chrome based browsers but sadly lacking in Firefox. Working well so far on Windows 10.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18644222, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Deewens, 11 days agoWork really well, even better than on Chrome, because you can customize a bit the PWA (like adding tabs for example, works really well to replace electron app on Linux)
- Rated 5 out of 5by BelFox, 11 days agoProfessionally build extension that brings PWAs to Firefox! Easy set-up and extensive user guide. Congrats to the developer!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18104801, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CodeDead, 25 days agoPretty much does what a PWA is supposed to do! I hope one day this extension will not be required and Firefox will just have PWA's by itself.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Allen, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Emre Akar, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18625448, a month agoDoes exactly what it says it does and looks native on my linux desktop
- Rated 5 out of 5by iresurrect, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Parakeet709, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Johnssson87, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alvin, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Carlos Pinzón, a month agoThis app is very solid. The functionality that this extension provides requires a special installation method and the extension instructions make this complex process simple. Once installed, everything is very easy.
I think that the default behavior should be to reuse existing windows instead of creating new instances, though this can be configured in the browser settings within each web app.
For me this app is a must have. I have several fixed google documents per month that I open and edit very frequently every day. Having this plus a system launcher (like albert launcher) simplifies my work a lot. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18549362, a month agoThis AddOn is awsome! You have a lot of option when setting up a PWA and the browser settings of each PWA profile are separate from each other and from the main browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by James, 2 months agoI installed this add-on after reading a Mozilla Developer Network article about Progressive Web Applications. I have a disdain for monopolies, so this allowed me to use a semi-officially endorsed method to install web apps via Firefox instead of using a Chromium based web browser. Perhaps someday Mozilla will decide to directly incorporate this extension as an integral component of Firefox.
All the web apps I have installed (some on Windows 11, some on Fedora, some on Debian) work as expected with no noticeable glitches. - Rated 5 out of 5by Um, 2 months ago[Fixed] [Fedora 40] Web App goes blank. Can't use as before.UI seems buggy
[How] Reinstall firefoxpwa first, then reinstall firefox from fedora rpm - Rated 5 out of 5by Dat_Random_Fur, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jorge, 2 months agoIn the last day, none of the PWA apps are opening. I followed the procedure recommended in the recent report here in the reviews, I installed the firefoxpwa-2.12.1-x86_64 version because I couldn't find the native installer that was mentioned on github, but it still didn't work.
I believe this happened after this last update of Firefox (131.0 (64-bits)).
also Win11Developer response
posted 2 months agoYes, it's related to Firefox 131 and has only been fixed in PWAsForFirefox 2.12.5.
I can't link it directly because URLs are not allowed here, but if you go to the GitHub repository, you should see PWAsForFirefox 2.12.5 on the right side under the releases section. Then, open the release and you should be able to download firefoxpwa-2.12.5-x86_64.msi under the assets section. - Rated 5 out of 5by Phillip Simons, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Guerrini, 2 months agoDidn't work. I only get blank windows for all apps I installed. (Win11).
Update- Even after downloading the "firefoxpwa-2.12.5-x86_64.msi" I couldn't get it to work. I tried removing the extention and fresh installing, but no luck.Developer response
posted 2 months agoPlease download the native program v2.12.5 from GitHub releases in the repository (specifically,
firefoxpwa-2.12.5-x86_64.msi).
Update: If you still have problems after updating to 2.12.5, make sure that the native version mentioned in the extension settings (About the project) is also 2.12.5. If it's not, uninstall the native program from the system settings and try again. You can also try to run "Patch profiles and runtime" from the extension settings. - Rated 5 out of 5by Tim, 2 months ago