A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefox
This release fixes a bug with Firefox 124. It is recommended to update to this release as soon as possible.
Localization support for the app browser (#340):
The app browser (the Firefox instance used for web apps) can now be localized into multiple languages. You can change the language in the app browser settings, in the same place as for general Firefox UI language. Please note that translations are maintained by the community and may be incomplete or incorrect.
You can help translate the extension on Crowdin. If your language is not yet available, please let me know on Crowdin. More details about contributing translations can be found in our contributing guidelines and Crowdin discussion.
Some antivirus software, including Microsoft Defender, detect the native connector as malware. The file has been submitted to Microsoft so it will hopefully be fixed soon. Until the antivirus issue is resolved, you might need to keep using the old version. This issue should now be resolved.
This release has a bug in the extension that breaks the web app install screen on Linux and macOS. Because of this, version 2.10.0 has been disabled on AMO. You should upgrade the extension to version 2.10.1 to fix the issue. The native part remains the same in 2.10.0 and 2.10.1.
Additionally, some antivirus software, including Microsoft Defender, detect the native connector as malware. The file has been submitted to Microsoft so it will hopefully be fixed soon. Until the antivirus issue is resolved, you might need to keep using the old version. This issue should now be resolved.
Localization support for the extension (#340):
The extension can now be localized into multiple languages. You can change the display language in the extension settings. Please note that translations are maintained by the community and may be incomplete or incorrect.
You can help translate the extension on Crowdin. If your language is not yet available, please let me know on Crowdin. More details about contributing translations can be found in our contributing guidelines and Crowdin discussion.
Currently, aside from English, Japanese is mostly translated with the help of @surapunoyousei.
Localization for the app browser is planned and is being worked on, but there are currently problems that prevent it from being finished. Help is appreciated.
Build-time feature to make the runtime immutable (#204):
The runtime can now be made immutable with the build-time Cargo feature immutable-runtime. This prevents installing and uninstalling the runtime using commands, and also stops patching the runtime when launching web apps. The runtime can still be patched manually from the extension settings or the patch command if the user has sufficient write permissions to do so.
This is meant for immutable systems like Guix or Nix where runtime might be provided by the package manager and pre-patched.
Option to apply the profile template to an existing profile when editing (#376).
Option to open apps automatically when they are installed (#447).
Support for patching the runtime from the command line.
lib64 is a symlink to lib should now work (#414).A new documentation website (#335): A new documentation website, located at https://pwasforfirefox.filips.si/, has been added. It replaces the old repository wiki and provides more information about the project, better usage instructions, troubleshooting pages, and an updated FAQ list.
An ability to update package versions without editiong files (#193, thanks to @JJRcop):
It is now possible to update the package version in Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and chrome.jsm with a new cargo-make-based script.
It is also possible to update the extension package version with a new script.
Instructions for this are displayed in the repository and the installation page.
In versions 2.7.0 and 2.7.1, the extension does not display the installation instructions properly. This issue is tracked as #368 and will be fixed as soon as possible. Affected versions have been disabled from AMO. If you have this issue, please downgrade the extension to 2.6.2 until this is properly fixed. Version 2.7.2 has been released with a fix. You should be able to quickly update to it by searching for updates on about:addons.
Prevented syncing some preferences and reset problematic ones:
Web app profiles now prevent syncing certain preferences that are commonly set to different values in web apps, as well as those known to cause problems. If you know what you are doing and still want to sync one of those preferences, you can enable them back using the services.sync.prefs.sync. control preferences. In the future, we could try to implement a different syncing "channel" just for web apps.
Additionally, the preferences known to cause problems were reset. Those preferences currently cannot be changed by users as they will be reset on every web app startup. This might be removed in the future, once enough users have had those preferences reset.
This is another attempt in fixing issues https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox/issues/253 and https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox/issues/349.
Added missing $pkgdir in the destination path of AUR package.