yoasifMozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox Priorities… See What You Missed
Mozilla Did a Reddit AMA About Their 2024 Firefox... #firefox
Carighan MaconarBobby responded that the desktop PWA prototype that Mozilla built a few years ago got “some pretty negative feedback” in user testing and they didn’t have the bandwidth to take another crack at it.
I love how much people forget about this. PWAs were not liked when they came out. And that’s putting it very very mildly.
And morover, at the time, people in general did not like PWAs as a concept. Independent of the browser. It’s a bit funny when nowadays people always ask for PWA support, considering it was once yelled at until it was axed, and the whole concept ridiculed.
sanpoI still don’t like it.
But it doesn’t change the fact that some big players insist on PWAs instead of standalone Electron/whatever wrappers if you want anything close to a native desktop experience instead of a browser tab.
And as for taking another crack at it, this time hopefully in a way that won’t confuse non-users, here’s some interesting followup looking for input: connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/…/60561
How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?
(See my quick update posted February 4, 2025: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-create-the-best-support-for-web-apps-on-the/m-p/85327/highlight/true#M32616, and then another update posted March 17, 2025: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/how-can-firefox-create-the-b...
Surprised that nobody asked about their recent purchase of an advertising company.
Maybe they did, but got moderated.
Or maybe most of the critical community left reddit a while ago, I mean, the top rated question in the AMA asks about changelogs in video format…
The AMA was June 13th, the acquisition news was posted June 16th.
Ah. That makes sense!