Web apps support for desktop browser too?

[lifewulf]

lifewulf last edited by

I'm perfectly happy with Opera GX except for this lack of functionality. I tried Vivaldi and didn't use it for long, same with Brave. Right now I'm only using MS Edge for its PWA functionality, everything else I do in Opera. Please change this!

[philjcrawford]

philjcrawford last edited by

Well, Opera Browser has been updated to Opera One. Still doesn't have webapps, which is disappointing.
I do like the fact that a lot of ads don't seem to appear in YouTube on Opera. I had been using Brave, but they are starting to allow ads through.
I guess that this might be more difficult to support on non-Windows platforms.

[SophiaPriest]

SophiaPriest last edited by

I am also curious about this. It'd be nice to have YT Music pinned to my taskbar in it's own "app" like Chrome does, as well as a website of mine that also supports PWAs like that. Am actually surprised that Opera GX doesn't already do this.

[mrlami]

mrlami last edited by

Another up vote here, just enable it already.

[llama0815]

llama0815 last edited by

Comment and Upvote for visibility

[DarthGTB]

DarthGTB @philjcrawford last edited by

@philjcrawford I moved out of Opera and now use Vivaldi as my main browser, but just would like to add that until a few years ago, before I tried Opera again (I'd been a user since before the Chromium take over, but switched a long time ago and tried again recently), I used to use Yandex as my main browser and its Linux version does support PWA and the PWA detached window can be reached both from the OS like an app and from its sidebar. You can set it to show up like the way Edge and Opera do, but you can make it fully detach as a separate window directly from the browser's sidebar. Yandex has a more stable version on Windows though. I think the Linux version is still in beta.

So yes, this is feasible in other OSs too.

I would just like to add that Yandex was born from Opera a long time ago. It's originally a fork from Chromium Opera that improved about every single trademark feature from it, including video popup, speed dial, sidebar, everything.

I moved out of it for a few reasons, including its UI started to take up too much space in the small monitor I had at work and I wanted to try Opera again. This was like a year or two before Opera's rebranding. Then came Opera's rebranding and a lot of stuff started breaking, so now I'm on Vivaldi which has its fair share of bugs, but has all the trademark Opera features + PWA support, which is probably the main reason I'm going to stick with it.

BTW, I didn't know until I moved to Vivaldi, but I think Vivaldi's team used to work for Opera in the old times, so you can see a lot of inspiration from the original Opera browser like being possible to choose where to put the tab bar and other customization options

[GabOnezio]

GabOnezio @lawrencetranmr last edited by

@lawrencetranmr Good! I am also optimistic about the development of PWAs, however it is a fact that this technology is not as famous because it does not have a store for it like the PlayStore, although the PlayStore supports exporting PWAs, it will never be something to be treated as something special and different like a native app! Perhaps the lack of p marketing is no longer a desire!```

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[legolooper]

legolooper @survivor303 last edited by

@survivor303 What I did to fix this was simple. I opened Microsoft Edge, since it's another very resource-light browser, then went to the website that I wanted. In my case YouTube Music. I then clicked the '3 dots' menu on the right side. Then, I hovered over 'Apps' and selected 'Make YouTube Music (or chosen app) an app'. You can choose to pin the app to your taskbar/desktop, along with other customizations. Choose what you want. Edge will not open with the program; only YouTube Music running inside of Edge. No other cluttering tabs open, or a browser. You can try this method too. Hope this helped!

[MeltedNickel200]

MeltedNickel200 @mrlami last edited by

@mrlami me too

[BruceHankins]

BruceHankins last edited by

This is the only reason I keep Chrome or Firefox around. It seems like there are no plans to implement PWA support in Opera, does anyone know if there's an extension that can be used to add PWAs?