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anthonycr / Lightning-Browser

A lightweight Android browser with modern navigation
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Feature request: Support progressive web apps (PWA) #640

Open christianfl opened 6 years ago

christianfl commented 6 years ago

Hi!

Maybe you could think of adding support for progressive web apps? See https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ . In short this means that you can add supported web sites / web apps to your home screen and they feel more like a native application. They offer:

Current Chrome and Chromium app and the Firefox 58 nightly already support this.

crbble commented 6 years ago

I want to extend this request.

In older versions of Google Chrome it was possible to press "Add to homescreen" and create an app shortcut that would load the browser without the navigation bar, show the browser with the single page loaded in the recent apps list and close it again by pressing the back button for instance.

This function was crippled with recent versions (navigation bar is shown) and I am looking for an alternative. The advantage of the old behaviour? It worked with all webpages, no headers or icons need to be added.

Btw: Your point 3, the faster loading speed, sounds like advertisement from Google. No offline usage is performance with PWA, maybe they do some caching.