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PWAsForFirefox filips

firefox foss open-source progressive-web-app web webapp
Use this command to install PWAsForFirefox:
winget install --id=filips.FirefoxPWA -e

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are web apps that use web APIs and features along with progressive enhancement strategy to bring a native app-like user experience to cross-platform web applications. Although Firefox supports many of Progressive Web App APIs, it does not support functionality to install them as a standalone system app with an app-like experience. This project creates a custom modified Firefox runtime to allow websites to be installed as standalone apps and provides a console tool and browser extension to install, manage and use them. This package contains only the native part of the FirefoxPWA project. You should also install the browser extension if you haven't already. You can download it from <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/>.

PWAsForFirefox is a tool designed to enable the installation and management of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) as standalone applications within Mozilla Firefox. PWAs are web-based applications that leverage modern web APIs and progressive enhancement strategies to deliver a native app-like experience across platforms.

Key Features:

  • A console tool for installing, managing, and running PWAs.
  • A browser extension to set up native programs and manage PWAs directly from Firefox.
  • An isolated Firefox runtime tailored for PWAs, ensuring a dedicated environment for each installed application.
  • Standalone app installations with their own start menu entries, taskbar icons, and windowed experience.
  • Removal of tabs and address bars for a cleaner, more immersive user interface.
  • Compatibility with all websites as PWAs, supporting a wide range of use cases.

README

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Progressive Web Apps for Firefox

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A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefox.

Description

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are web apps that use web APIs and features along with progressive enhancement strategy to bring a native app-like user experience to cross-platform web applications. Although Firefox supports many of Progressive Web App APIs, it does not support functionality to install them as a standalone system app with an app-like experience.

This project creates a custom modified Firefox runtime to allow websites to be installed as standalone apps and provides a console tool and browser extension to install, manage and use them.

Usage

TLDR: Install the browser extension and follow in-browser installation instructions. You can read the documentation website for usage instructions and other useful resources.

For more details and technical documentation about setting up, using, and developing the project, see the READMEs of the native and extension part:

  • Native
  • Extension

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Website
pwasforfirefox.filips.si
License
Last Updated
7/19/2025
  • Full support for Firefox extensions and built-in features.

    • Audience & Benefit: Ideal for web developers, tech enthusiasts, and users seeking to enhance their Firefox experience. PWAsForFirefox bridges the gap in Firefox's native PWA installation capabilities, enabling users to benefit from the convenience and performance of standalone PWAs while maintaining full compatibility with Firefox's ecosystem.

    PWAsForFirefox can be installed via winget, offering a seamless integration into your system environment.

    Available Features

    • Command-line tool to install, manage and run Progressive Web Apps in Firefox.
    • Extension to set up native programs, and install, manage and run PWAs and their profiles directly from the main Firefox browser.
    • Isolated Firefox installation and profile(s) that stores the PWAs.
    • Installed PWAs have their own start/app menu entry and taskbar icon, and live in their own window.
    • Installed PWAs have tabs and address bar for a better app-like feel.
    • Support for installing all websites as Progressive Web Apps.
    • Support for all Firefox addons/extensions and built-in Firefox features.
    • Support for automatic (user-triggered) installation and patching of installation and profile(s).

    Planned Features

    • Support for more system-related web app manifest features (once they are standardized).

    Not Planned Features

    • Integration into official Firefox code. This project currently modifies the browser chrome (UI) at runtime using JS and CSS. Although this works, it is officially unsupported by Mozilla and can break with Firefox updates. To contribute features back into the official Firefox code, they would need to be implemented properly with the new chrome page and browser services. Unfortunately, this requires an almost complete rewrite of the project, and I currently don't have enough knowledge and time to do that.

    • Using the same installation profile for PWAs and normal browsing. This could make the main browser installation/profile unstable if things break. It would also prevent customizing the PWA profile to work better as a PWA profile, and installing custom addons. If you want to sync data between your main and PWA profile, I recommend using Firefox Account or a third-party sync solution.

    • Running PWAs installed as Windows APPX/MSIX packages or from Microsoft Store. They will always use Chromium-based Edge that is installed on Windows 10/11. I'm not sure if it is possible to override this. If it is not too hard and doesn't cause any problems, I may try this in the future.

    • Support for Chromium-specific APIs (Filesystem, Bluetooth, NFC, USB...). This would require forking and directly modifying the Firefox source. Also, I'm not sure if giving websites the same privileges as native apps is the best idea...

    Current Limitations

    You can our documentation website for a list of current limitations.

    Supporters

    Sponsors

    Thanks to packagecloud.io for sponsoring this project and providing us a free hosting for our DEB and RPM packages!

     

    Thanks to all donors for providing financial support for the project! Please check supported donation services if you want to help the project by donating.

    Contributors

    Thanks to all contributors to this project for providing help and developing features!

    Contributors

    Other Mentions

    Thanks to all package maintainers making sure the project is up-to-date! Thanks to all translators making the project available in multiple languages! Thanks to all stargazers who starred our repository on GitHub. Finally, thanks to Mozilla and its developers for creating Firefox and making it possible to modify its UI using JavaScript!

    Versioning

    The project uses SemVer for versioning. For the available versions and the changelog, see the releases on this repository.

    The native and extension part of the project at released tags are compatible with each other according to SemVer. The native and extension part at non-tagged commits may not be compatible with each other, because they are development versions that may not be both updated at the same time.

    The project aims for compatibility with the latest stable Firefox version. It may not be compatible with the others.

    License

    The project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. By using, redistributing, or modifying it, you must agree to the license, and the additional clauses provided below. See the LICENSE file for the full license text.

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    • The project logo is based on the "Fox SVG Vector" icon and the community-introduced PWA logo, both dedicated to the public domain using CC0.

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    • Browser chrome modifications partially use code and icons derived from the original Firefox source, licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Detailed information can be found in the respective files.

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