To manage the apps youвЂ™ve installed this way, open Firefox, open the (hamburger) menu, and choose вЂњSites in App Mode.вЂќ You can uninstall any app here by choosing its Uninstall (вЂњxвЂќ) button. You can pin this app to the taskbar or to the tiles area of the Start menu, just as with any other app. When you do, the page/app will appear as a standalone app window, and shortcuts will appear on the desktop and in the Start menu. To do so, navigate to the webpage or web app you wish to use, then click Page actions (вЂњвЂ¦вЂќ) in the address bar and choose вЂњUse This Site in App Mode.вЂќ Now, you can run any webpage (and not just PWAs and other web apps) as if it was an app. Use the toggle button on the right to change it to true and then restart Firefox. Then type in the address bar to find the feature. To do so, type about:config in the Firefox address bar and click-through the warning. To use SSB with Firefox, you must be running Firefox 73 or newer-which wonвЂ™t be hard, as the latest version is 84-and you have to enable it first. An SSB also has tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.вЂќ Some people have called it a вЂdistraction-free browserвЂ™ because none of the typical browser chrome is used. вЂњIt doesnвЂ™t have the menus, toolbars, and accouterments of a normal web browser. вЂњAn SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application,вЂќ Mozilla explains. I canвЂ™t explain why I wasnвЂ™t aware of this (at least the desktop bit), but itвЂ™s called Site Specific Browser (SSB) and itвЂ™s here now for those interested in testing it.

And Mozilla started testing a similar approach for supplying this functionality on desktop almost a year ago. The mobile versions of Firefox have been able to create apps from webpages since 2017. But it turns out that the firm didnвЂ™t give up completely. IвЂ™ve long wondered why Mozilla dropped Prism and discontinued the ability to run web apps as if they were native apps. But as web apps have grown more sophisticated in more recent years, Chrome and other browsers have picked up similar capabilities, and Google has an entire platform, called Chrome OS, dedicated to running these apps outside of the normal browser container. WhatвЂ™s odd about this feature is that Mozilla originally innovated the ability to run webpages and apps as if they were native applications using a technology called Prism that has long since been stripped out of that browser. A reader tipped me off to an experimental Firefox feature that lets it work as seamlessly with PWAs as does Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium-based web browsers.

Firefox logged me out of everything