To use SSB with Firefox, you must be running Firefox 73 or newer-which won’t be hard, as the latest version is 84-and you have to enable it first. An SSB also has tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.” Some people have called it a ‘distraction-free browser’ because none of the typical browser chrome is used. “It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars, and accouterments of a normal web browser. “An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application,” Mozilla explains. I can’t explain why I wasn’t aware of this (at least the desktop bit), but it’s called Site Specific Browser (SSB) and it’s here now for those interested in testing it. And Mozilla started testing a similar approach for supplying this functionality on desktop almost a year ago.
The mobile versions of Firefox have been able to create apps from webpages since 2017. But it turns out that the firm didn’t give up completely. I’ve long wondered why Mozilla dropped Prism and discontinued the ability to run web apps as if they were native apps.
