The Mediocre State of PWAs (captured on pwa.support, which I vibe coded for science)

https://naildrivin5.com/blog/2026/03/09/pwa-support-and-the-mediocre-state-of-pwas.html

pwa.support and the Mediocre State of PWAs

pwa.support and the Mediocre State of PWAs

Naildrivin' 5 - Website of David Bryant Copeland

@davetron5000 Did you look support for in-pwa tab support? Do you use that feature?

I've been messing around with this since starting a new job and using Google products lacking stand alone apps (chat), and sadly Jira.

For Jira, I like having multiple tabs. Safari doesn't support multiple tabs. I can't remember why I bailed on FF PWA, but I'm using the free version of WebCatalog (limit 2 PWAs). It gets the internal/external link operations correct without any hassle or inconsistencies.

@n3bulous I will try it out - Safari def used to support tabs and Firefox PWA has options to open links in new tabs.
@davetron5000 They removed in recently-ish IIRC.
@n3bulous Firefox PWA extension doesn't seem to allow it - I can make a new window, but not a new tab :(
@davetron5000 Yeah, that's possibly why I stopped using it, but I thought I'd found a way but had encountered a diff problem (i.e., using the current browser only for a matching domain)
@davetron5000 Was hoping you had encountered a different experience besides leveraging something like WebCatalog. I've also tried Coherence, but I didn’t like the experience around this problem.
@n3bulous I think I must not be using multiple tabs that often in sites I consider "apps", i.e. my mental model of JIRA is not an "app" (for no real reason), but Linear is, and so I've never used tabs with it thus don't miss it. Seems like tabs/new windows should be part of an "app like" experience now that you mention it (or at least not prevented if an app wants them to be used)