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Can someone test Web Apps?

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TrenttonY

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Do they still use the extensions you have installed -- i.e AdBlockers?
And does iCloud Private Relay still work with them, like it would if it was a normal web page?
Also, is there tabbed browsing support in each Web App?

Web Apps is looking to be my favorite feature in macOS Sonoma.

Thanks!
 
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2 top both answers, yes.
However, there is no tabbed views in Web Apps.

All it is is a bookmark on your Dock that opens it in a cool new view :)
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I’m curious if you can get notifications from macrumors forum.
 
They’re just progressive web apps (PWA). Chrome has supported them for years.
 
I wonder if these are intended to work with Stage Manager. Should make it much easier to create work layouts if you can treat a web site as distinct named application
edit - do they work with profiles? So can I make an app that always opens using a specified profile?
 
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sniffies said:
It's in the Dock, Launchpad, and Finder. If you remove it from the Dock, it still sits in the Launchpad and Finder. To trash the app completely, you need to remove it from the Launchpad or Finder.
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Great news! This might be the best feature in Sonoma.
 
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It would be great if you could have tabbed webpages. So you could have in one web app all the pages that you usually use for your work or other profile.
 
I'd really like extensions to work in web apps. I use Noir (a dark mode for websites app) and it's amazing but it doesn't work in the web apps.

Hope this is a bug, not by design.
 
camsamo said:
It would be great if you could have tabbed webpages. So you could have in one web app all the pages that you usually use for your work or other profile.
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That kind of defeats the purpose.... The whole point of webapps is to isolate a single website and present it in app form.
 
bigjnyc said:
That kind of defeats the purpose.... The whole point of webapps is to isolate a single website and present it in app form.
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How so? It would allow you to have multiple tabs of the same website in one app window.

It would be extremely useful for YouTube, where you can jump between multiple videos in different tabs, where currently you can only play one video at a time.
 
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Works awesome with ESPN and Flightradar24.. might be one of my favorite new features...
 
cflem said:
Works awesome with ESPN and Flightradar24.. might be one of my favorite new features...
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They said in the keynote that it works with "any website", so definitely a big plus over Chrome, where its up to the website to enable it.
 
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How so? It would allow you to have multiple tabs of the same website in one app window.

It would be extremely useful for YouTube, where you can jump between multiple videos in different tabs, where currently you can only play one video at a time.
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Then you might as well just use the website
 
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Can someone test if you log in or out of an account via the web app, it won't also log you in/out on the main Safari browser? On iOS the web app has separate logins from main Safari while Chrome web apps on MacOS doesn't, which is a pain because I have multiple accounts on some sites.

If Safari web apps work the same as iOS this would be very useful for me!
 
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How so? It would allow you to have multiple tabs of the same website in one app window.

It would be extremely useful for YouTube, where you can jump between multiple videos in different tabs, where currently you can only play one video at a time.
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you could use Tab Groups to do that can’t you, just have one Tab Group for YouTube, so that your other webpages don’t get mixed up with your video pages.

I’m intending to use WebApps function for Netflix and Disney+. Those sites don’t tend to require multiple tabs, but I can see on sites where you have smaller content, like YouTube, or where you’d search multiple sources of information (like Wikipedia) then tabs would be useful. But I think TabGroups would solve the issue of providing an isolated view
 
galad said:
Try the WhatsApp Catalyst beta app, it works quite well.
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Thanks for the tip! Overall, the web version suits me fine (only calls are missing, but I don't use WA for that). Plus it has no useless updates, everything happens seamlessly.
 
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