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Setup Progressive Web Apps support in Firefox




  1. Visit and install the FirefoxPWA extension and follow the instructions in the browser.
  2. Accept to the license agreement,
  3. Download and install visual C++redisributable on Windows
  4. Download and run the FirefoxPWA MSI installer
  5. Click on the extension icon




Additional knowledge may be needed for Linux operating system.Proceed with care

Linux Steps
mi73n@Techglyphs:~$ curl -fsSL https://packagecloud.io/filips/FirefoxPWA/gpgkey | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/firefoxpwa-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/firefoxpwa-keyring.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/filips/FirefoxPWA/any any main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/firefoxpwa.list > /dev/null
mi73n@Techglyphs:~$ sudo apt install firefoxpwa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefoxpwa
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,634 kB of archives.
After this operation, 27.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://packagecloud.io/filips/FirefoxPWA/any any/main amd64 firefoxpwa amd64 2.8.0 [8,634 kB]
Fetched 8,634 kB in 3s (3,386 kB/s)     
Selecting previously unselected package firefoxpwa.
(Reading database ... 336180 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firefoxpwa_2.8.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking firefoxpwa (2.8.0) ...
Setting up firefoxpwa (2.8.0) ...
You have successfully installed the native part of the PWAsForFirefox project
You should also install the Firefox extension if you haven't already
Download: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pwas-for-firefox/
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