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    • A Former User
      A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

      @CraKen I know, its up to the developers if they want to use it in their browser.Many developers are supporting and embracing pwa because it means less work on supporting various apps on various platforms. As well making the browser less bloated/heavy while still having the feature. While presintalled apps makes it bloated and heavier.

      Plus if you can make it into a useful feature why not. Makes Edge and other chromium browsers that support it smart. FF is smart for recognizing it and beginning to work on supporting it too. And what Vivaldi and Whale browser did which was what i suggested pretty much puts Opera's sidebar functionality to shame. Especially with those messaging apps on the sidebar.

      BTW since you said PWA goes against Opera's design, tell me what exactly does it go against. Is Opera so unflexible that they can't bring it in somehow? Anyways that's just only a part of the Opera problem i'd say.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @Guest last edited by

        @artexjay I'm an IT-engineer and have been developed PWA's. You are totally correct, it ease the support, because website and app are having the same code base. But it is up to each browser to support this feature and FF doesn't do that yet, which is a shame.
        I didn't knew FF are working on support for it...that's great 🙂

        By saying it goes against their design as they already have pre-installed e.g. Messenger. Means, yes, Opera need to be more flexible. Messenger is a PWA, so right now Opera needs to substitute the pre-installed apps with PWA's. Also make it possible to install new ones too.
        But I don't see that is going to happen anytime soon...it takes time to refactor that design (by design, I mean code wise).

        Yes, Opera have more problems, although their Android app is quite good and thumb friendly 🙂 Chrome could learn some there, if you don't set some flags...

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

          @CraKen I will have to agree with you that Opera is quite stubborn to good change especially since they totally would be able to compete against Vivaldi's implementation of PWA in the sidebar. It would make more sense than just having a select few messengers on there.

          I agree Opera has quite a few issues, some of those issues are really old too.

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          • brkeejp
            brkeejp last edited by

            I agreed about easy to use multiple platform.
            Also already switched to Edge and I can easily say I'm happy about it currently still need more functions. Faster than opera launch speed, slower page load, but if u install pwa 9-10 times faster than opera.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User @brkeejp last edited by

              @brkeejp That is also my experience. Thanks for sharing 🙂

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                I vote for this as well. Since PWA is a feature in Chromium, I just don't see why Opera's developers would remove this feature. Currently, I have Chrome installed for this purpose only.

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                • survivor303
                  survivor303 last edited by

                  It seems that devs dosnt even read these, i have moved to brave and firefox long time ago.. truly open source is key thing, there you have multiple ways to contact main developers and discuss features and bugs with them.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User @survivor303 last edited by

                    @survivor303 The Brave browser allows PWA then?

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                      @pehkawn Yes. There will be a + sign at the right of the address field where you can install.

                      Vivaldi has support too if you enable the PWA menu option at the URL vivaldi://experiments. Then, you'll be able to right-click the tab or page and choose "Install".

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

                        @burnout426 Thanks for tipping off about Brave! I am positively surprised how fast it is! I've already used Firefox for some time and are reasonably happy with it. However, there are certain extensions that are not available for Firefox, and I really like the PWA feature in Chrome. However, I have become increasingly paranoid about how much information is collected about my surfing habits. I installed Opera because it seemed to be a "privacy-oriented Chrome". Brave seem to accomplish this better, and without loss of desired functionality. I also like that it's open source.

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                        • brkeejp
                          brkeejp @Guest last edited by

                          @pehkawn Yes Opera is Secure but lack of most functions. Like PWA and Touch Screen support (desktop) I switched to Edge and I'm happy about it. They going forward. And yes Firefox is Most Secure one. But you can try Edge. They are added some security functions too.

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                          • noctis0430
                            noctis0430 last edited by

                            I would like to see Opera support web apps as well.

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User last edited by

                              yh, i also want to see opera supporting web apps

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                I came here just to say that i also want webApps. Opera should at least inform that the site supports webapp installation so we can go to other browser, install it and get back to opera. At least that!!

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                                • arridian
                                  arridian @Guest last edited by

                                  @artexjay As of 2020 November, Google Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, and Brave all support PWA's/Webapps. I do not believe that Opera Supports it yet.

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                                  • skywerty
                                    skywerty last edited by

                                    already 2021 and Opera still doesn't support PWA / WebApps. I'm switching to Edge, but it's bad for Opera and so few users use this browser.

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                                    • brkeejp
                                      brkeejp @skywerty last edited by

                                      @skywerty I switched to Edge on 25.09.2019 and I'm happy soo far. Always wished they should add Bookmark thumbnail but now you can add pages to collecions and view their thumbnail.

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                                      • skywerty
                                        skywerty @brkeejp last edited by

                                        @brkeejp Yes, I also use it, a very convenient thing)

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                                        • survivor303
                                          survivor303 @brkeejp last edited by

                                          @brkeejp Yes, Microsoft is doing great work with their chromium based edge but it has problems too, not with pwa though.

                                          My wishlist for edge: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/some-things-which-need-improved/m-p/2005716 🙂

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                                          • slashdoodle
                                            slashdoodle @survivor303 last edited by

                                            @survivor303 yeah i felt that too oof

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