I am using Firefox in my iPhone and I have 2 websites I often use which do not provide an app.
With Safari I can add a shortcut to my Home Screen to a specific website. I have not found a way to do that for Firefox.
Is there any way to achieve that?
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I would like to save firefox web page shortcuts to home screen. Safari has a Save to home screen option, but I can not find the same option in Fire Fox.
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Totally agree! I had a previous post with the exact same complaint. Thanks for providing an unofficial work-around, will try it!
Edit: I don't even know if ublock runs on these PWA.
More on reddit.comIs there a way to add a standard web page shortcut to IOS home screen so that it opens a webpage in FireFox? Seems it should be fairly straightforward but I can't find where to do it from.
And I'm not talking about a widget - want to use a standard shortcut.
Thanks!
Just discovered this trick and thought I'd share with the class.
Background:
When you go to a site in Firefox for Android, the menu offers you "Add to Home screen", which results in a shortcut that simply opens the URL in Firefox. But you may have noticed that with certain sites, it takes away that option, mysteriously replacing it with "Install". You may also have noticed that when you try this, it gives you a shortcut that, when used, opens the site in a weird mode that takes away all the normal browser controls you're used to — along with a lot of functionality like "Find in page" and whatnot. If you're like me, you think this sucks. >:(
Well, what this is is a fancy "feature" websites can signal to your browser, saying that they can be loaded as a Progressive Web App (PWA). All that really means is that the site that can pretend it's an installed app, if it has the collusion of the browser. That's all super neato keen and everything, but why Mozilla has decided that no one should be able to have a plain old link anymore when this has been done is beyond me.
The workaround solution:
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Get the URL just like you want it (e.g. lopping off paths, altering query strings, whatever), but don't go to it yet
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Turn on Airplane Mode (or use whatever your favorite method of cutting off all Internet access might be)
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Attempt to go your URL; it will of course fail
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You now have "Add to Home screen" instead of "Install". Use it
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Restore Internet access and enjoy your simple link
The actual solution:
Mozilla, leave "Add to Home screen" on regardless of whether you also offer "Install" or not so we don't have to do this nonsense.