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.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    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.

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    2 months ago

    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?

    • (⬤ᴥ⬤)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      2 months ago

      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

  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    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.