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firefox web apps

In the latest Nightly build of Firefox, you can now save web apps as independent windows.

Chromium-based browsers have offered this feature for a while, but it's nice to see Firefox finally having this capability.

It's not exactly like Chromium, though. Unlike Chromium, Firefox still shows the address bar and extensions.

A screenshot of the new Firefox web apps feature.

I personally prefer this approach because it still allows you to access the extensions easily.

One thing I don't like is that the app in the Start Menu doesn't use a proper title, instead it uses the first word in the website's URL.

For example, if the website is "https://github.com/", the app will just be titled "Github". It should have proper capitalization: "GitHub".

The app icon is fine, though. It uses the favicon. However, I think a prompt for entering the title (similar to the bookmarks) would be nice.