Comment 1 for bug 1329046

Hi, thanks for your feedback and appreciation of webapps.

I understand you reasons for using Firefox. But you seemed to be a (rather) rare case of user using Firefox and webapps in tabs.

The majority of users feedback was that a single window per app was a less confusing model. That's why we invested into having our own webapp container. Note that webapp-container is /not/ webbrowser-app. The webapp is hosted in a distinct web engine instance. It has its own window, and nothing is shared between the 2.

Then, because we can't maintain complex extensions for 2 browsers (3 even if counting webbapp-container itself), we decided to limit the functionality of what the browser extensions do, to just "signaling" webapps, and installing a webapp shortcut on the launcher.

Technically it is possible to restore the feature in the Firefox extension. You are welcome to provide an alternate build of the extension, hosted in a PPA for example. However, we can't commit to maintaining that for Trusty (and the next 5 years), considering the changes Firefox may see in that timeframe.

If you need help in doing this, feel free to ask justinmcp or zaspire (also their nicks on IRC) for pointers to do so.

David