Reviews for Progressive Web Apps for Firefox
Progressive Web Apps for Firefox by Filip Štamcar
Review by Ded10c
Rated 5 out of 5
by Ded10c, 2 years agoWhen I finally got sick enough of Edge to migrate my work PC to Firefox, being able to use Power Platform apps as PWAs instead of having them fill my browser with tabs was the one of the two things I missed. Between this and Sidebery, both features are covered to such an extent that going back to what I was missing now would be a significant step down.
Privacy was one of the main reasons I moved to Firefox, and I expected PWAs to be a necessary sacrifice in the name of effective isolation, but this extension supports all my existing extensions too: I'm able to supplement each app with uBlock, JShelter, LocalCDN, and whatever other site-specific extensions I might want to. PWAs run completely isolated from the main browser in their own shared instance of Firefox, and each can be set to launch on a specified profile - meaning I no longer need to think about Meta's cross site tracking seeing anything outside the profile I've set up to sandbox my Messenger PWA away from my Google Drive or Microsoft Office ones.
The PWAs are reliable and lightweight, and in my experience much better at handling their boundaries than their mainstream cousins - I've not had one kick me back to my main browser when I try to open a document yet, and they've had every opportunity.
PWAs for Firefox does have a more involved installation experience than most extensions and it can be a little bit finicky if you're working in a deployed environment - this is unfortunately by necessity, and I imagine most of the target audience are likely to be the sort of power user who has few qualms manually unpacking a Firefox installer. This is also the only thing I've encountered that even comes close to being a downside.
This took less than three hours to become an essential extension for me, and it's heartily recommended to anyone who prefers their convenience to come without a helping of tracking on the side.
Privacy was one of the main reasons I moved to Firefox, and I expected PWAs to be a necessary sacrifice in the name of effective isolation, but this extension supports all my existing extensions too: I'm able to supplement each app with uBlock, JShelter, LocalCDN, and whatever other site-specific extensions I might want to. PWAs run completely isolated from the main browser in their own shared instance of Firefox, and each can be set to launch on a specified profile - meaning I no longer need to think about Meta's cross site tracking seeing anything outside the profile I've set up to sandbox my Messenger PWA away from my Google Drive or Microsoft Office ones.
The PWAs are reliable and lightweight, and in my experience much better at handling their boundaries than their mainstream cousins - I've not had one kick me back to my main browser when I try to open a document yet, and they've had every opportunity.
PWAs for Firefox does have a more involved installation experience than most extensions and it can be a little bit finicky if you're working in a deployed environment - this is unfortunately by necessity, and I imagine most of the target audience are likely to be the sort of power user who has few qualms manually unpacking a Firefox installer. This is also the only thing I've encountered that even comes close to being a downside.
This took less than three hours to become an essential extension for me, and it's heartily recommended to anyone who prefers their convenience to come without a helping of tracking on the side.
283 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 19588349, 23 days ago1 Star Review 11/21/2025:The UI/UX of this extension seems bugged as of November 11th, 2025. The scroll bar does not allow me to properly scroll down to actually create the PWA and the pop-up for the extension itself runs down the entire screen from the very bottom of the extensions taskbar icon.
I'm running this on an Asus Zephyrus M16, so a 16in screen, and zooming out on the page and trying this with the browser minimized doesn't help. I was very excited to use this extension until this roadblock, and I will happily try again should this be user error; but having skimmed the installation and user guides, I saw no mention of resizing the popup or anything of that nature.
3 Star Edit(same day): I realized something shortly after posting this, and found a workaround thanks to that. I have poor eyesight, so I have my font size generally set to 16. Putting it down to 12 fixed the issue for me, so I've raised my rating to 3 stars from 1 star. While it works this way, there should be a scaling setting to prevent such a thing from happening in the first place. What if I was unable to read at a lower font size at all? Once this is fixed, I'll very happily give this another update.Developer response
posted 16 days agoCan you please create an issue on GitHub (https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox/issues) and provide steps to reproduce this and some screenshots? I will try to fix it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18123079, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19512258, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18536134, 2 months agoThe crucial missing functionality reimplemented!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Lo zar, 3 months agoGreat, but on Gentoo I complied from source. Is it normal that I must use sudo?
Developer response
posted 2 months agoProbably yes, but I'm not very familiar with how Gentoo package installation works. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17341475, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gilles, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18751479, 4 months agoHonestly thing thing is fantastic. FF probably will never bring native PWA back to FF. Zen is also a ways out, but this extension is near flawless. Use it every day. It is well executed, reliable, and makes my life better. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18735275, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18475550, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Misaka, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by tyleralbee, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by DAR, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15245456, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19014561, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Pxtl, 7 months agoStill works well but the latest update degraded functionality a bit. Icons often have to be manually added to the PWA, and the Windows OS can no longer store persistent links to the PWA in the taskbar - "pin to taskbar" results in a link that gets invalidated every time FF starts. IIRC that feature used to work.
- Rated 3 out of 5by ShahabRasekh, 7 months agoI like the app and i can run it on debian, but installing on Ubuntu isn't successful yet.
Developer response
posted 6 months agoIf you are using Snap-based Firefox on Ubuntu (which is the default), you might need some additional steps: https://pwasforfirefox.filips.si/help/faq/#why-doesnt-the-extension-find-the-native-connector-on-linux - Rated 5 out of 5by Kay, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Stefan, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13751407, 7 months agoWorking great! I can use multiple profiles to access the same website with alternative accounts, and I can sync all my Firefox apps to access there as well (uBlock and Bitwarden 🙏🏻).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alastal, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alex Trujillo, 7 months agoThis is great! It works much better than I expected.
I couldn't get the extension to work in Firefox installed via Snap on Ubuntu, but that doesn’t bother me at all.
Thank you! - Rated 5 out of 5by lidi_a, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ZwrvKrll, 9 months ago