I recently moved some apps to pwas like discord/element/telegram
I am using Brave Browser , i’m getting the notifications while the pwas are open but not when they’re closed even if Brave is open and “Continue running background apps when Brave is closed” is ticked on
options to tackle this :
1 - is there a way to have notifications when pwas are closed ?
2- is there a way to close the pwas to tray ? (windows 11) (imo best option)
Check the website permissions of your PWA and ensure that you have “Allow Notifications” on. I believe most websites should prompt you automatically each time you create a PWA
i have allowed notifications and receive them when the pwa is open but not when they are closed (but browser still open)
found this cool app : GitHub - scavin/rbtray: A fork of RBTray from http://sourceforge.net/p/rbtray/code/. · GitHub that does (almost) what i want , it can minimize any windows app (including pwas) to tray so they are still running and still get notifications , i already have pwas pinned to task bar , unfortunately when they are minimized to tray and open the taskbar shortcut it opens a new pwa instead of the one in tray , hope someone can offer a better solution
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still haven’t found a solution to this , basically i want pwas to close to tray and if i open from taskbar open same app not spin new pwa
right now i am opening all pwas in second dektop in windows but hopefully there is a better solution
when we move to PWA , Does it Hide your Device name , Ip ? what are the benefit of using PWA instead of App ?
i.e. Privacy is Better Than Comfort.
The discussion about PWAs is quite interesting from a security standpoint. It actually made me think about how we secure our physical data too. Has anyone looked into the security protocols of a smart safe box? I’m trying to understand if their digital encryption is as solid as the privacy standards we discuss here for apps.
PWAs do not Hide your device name or IP, from the service you are using the PWA for. TO acheave something like that you would need to employ external tools like a VPN to Hide your real IP from the service provider/PWA website.
From my understanding, one of the main security advantages of PWAs is attack surface reduction, as moving some applications which already connected to the web intro a web browser instead of giving them their own “native" applications” reduces the exploitable code run on a local system.
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