i use firefox with a lot of extensions, making the shortcut widget with the built-in add to home screen function won’t work because it’ll open the site with extensions disabled.
i’ve managed to make it work better by making the shortcut with internet disabled which opens the link in the actual firefox app but that gives the shortcut app a generic icon which looks bad.
i’ve searched around and there are apps that make shortcuts but no luck finding a foss one.
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Firefox lets you make shortcuts that appear on your new tab (home) page in the browser, that might be a good option since they’ll open in the browser and not as a PWA.
not a perfect solution but better than nothing, i’ll keep it in mind
Maybe I don’t quite understand, but is Firefox focus what you’re after? It’s my default browser. I also have Firefox with extensions installed which I use for my other stuff.
no. i literally just want a way to open a site from an app shortcut in firefox.
Native Alpha: https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid/
Uses the system web view to make any website open in a dedicated window. Has some other niceties like applying adblock on a per “app” basis.
Doesn’t do extensions, though, but if some of the built-in tweaks are sufficient, may be worth a shot.
sounds nice but no i need those extensions
I don’t completely understand.
Why does normal shortcut open website without extensions? Does it open in private tab? And you have extensions disabled in private tabs?tried it again the extensions seem to work now, maybe it was a bug with firefox?
anyway the widgets the add to home screen thing adds don’t open in the normal firefox app, there’s no search bar for example
