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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking about Firefox for Android? Because no, regular Firefox doesnt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not the "add to home screen" button that installs a link which then works without Firefox UI?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thats on android only. And no, it isnt. If its a PWA then that button changes to "Install". Which does almost the same thing as "Add to home screen" except it opens the webpage up as if it was a separate app. That means it gets its own entry in the "Recent apps" list and its own icon, and it hides the address bar.

Edit: You can test this yourself by going to lemmy.world on your phone. It is a PWA. Any website can really be a PWA, it just needs a manifest file. Lemmy.worlds manifest are available here and you can see what settings it contains.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, just tried it with kbin.social, it says install.