* The Firefox (BETA) entry does not work on default Ubuntu installs, where Firefox is a Snap. Yes, snap bad, bla bla bla, but it still remains one of the most likely way Firefox will be installed on Ubuntu. This comes from the fact that your script attempts to locate the profile folder in ~/.mozilla/firefox, whereas snaps stores them in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/.
* New profiles unfortunately don't share logins on Firefox, which means your app is disconnected at first. Not a big deal, but could maybe be changed by copying some things from the default profile ?
* Firefox does not display _any_ titlebar when ran in this way.
Love the idea. There's many times where I'd like something to have a bit more "privilege" on my toolbar than what a regular tab (even pinned) gets.
So I did this, turned out it's not only just Firefox without the browser UI, but it also bricked my actual Firefox browser and now it doesn't connect to the internet.
@mathix maybe you can make it clear on the website that this doesn't create app/play store apps, as most people probably think about them when they read "turn any website into an app".
From the github readme[0]:
> FTWA uses the --app='https://app.example' parameter with Chromium-based browsers to launch a website in "app mode".
> [...]
> When choosing linux as target OS, FTWA generate a shell script that will create a .desktop file and it's icons.
Pretty good! Just a few observations:
* The Firefox (BETA) entry does not work on default Ubuntu installs, where Firefox is a Snap. Yes, snap bad, bla bla bla, but it still remains one of the most likely way Firefox will be installed on Ubuntu. This comes from the fact that your script attempts to locate the profile folder in ~/.mozilla/firefox, whereas snaps stores them in ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/.
* New profiles unfortunately don't share logins on Firefox, which means your app is disconnected at first. Not a big deal, but could maybe be changed by copying some things from the default profile ?
* Firefox does not display _any_ titlebar when ran in this way.
Love the idea. There's many times where I'd like something to have a bit more "privilege" on my toolbar than what a regular tab (even pinned) gets.
So I did this, turned out it's not only just Firefox without the browser UI, but it also bricked my actual Firefox browser and now it doesn't connect to the internet.
Cool stuff!
@mathix maybe you can make it clear on the website that this doesn't create app/play store apps, as most people probably think about them when they read "turn any website into an app".
From the github readme[0]:
> FTWA uses the --app='https://app.example' parameter with Chromium-based browsers to launch a website in "app mode".
> [...]
> When choosing linux as target OS, FTWA generate a shell script that will create a .desktop file and it's icons.
[0]: https://github.com/mathix420/free-the-web-apps?tab=readme-ov...
Thanks! Yes I didn't realized I don't speak about this on the website, good advice!
If you are interested in using this then I can also highly recommend webapp manager.
https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager