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Hey @delta! Reading this delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows… got me thinking. I live in Firefox but miss Chrome’s one-click “Install PWA as app”. What about a Tauri-based helper + a Firefox extension that wraps a PWA into a desktop app in one step? Hosting stays light: the PWA is cached; relays/self-hosted instances can serve the client. Keeps control with admins. Interested? 👍🏻

#Firefox #PWA #Tauri #DeltaChat #FOSS #OpenSource #SelfHosting #WebExtensions


Delta Chat: Delta Chat Desktop, but running inside of Firefox 🦊

As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...
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#foss #firefox #opensource #selfhosting #deltachat #pwa #tauri #webextensions @Delta Chat
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there is also a tauri version, we will publish the blogpost about that somewhere in the future. github.com/deltachat/deltachat…
Also this browser version is not standalone, it still requires one server instance per user that runs deltachat/chatmail core. Ideally it would be just a PWA, but for that #chatmail core needs to be compiled to, and work in wasm: support.delta.chat/t/what-woul…

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Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Desktop - deltachat/deltachat-desktop
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