Inb4 I know I have an old phone with low storage and old Android 9 and a slightly outdated Fenix fork (IceRaven/Fenix 112) with a bunch of extensions and the problem could be in any of these. Just wanna know if it's definitely on my end or maybe not. Because I never have this kind of problems with any other web site.
Anyway. I tend to use permanent Private mode apart from a couple PWAs, including some Lemmy instances. My "home" lemmy.world with 0.17.4 works well enough.
But I just realized that when using instances on 0.18 like lemmy.ml or lemmynsfw, minimizing the PWA (going to phone home screen) crashes the entire browser, including any other windows.
So, is it just me?
For comparison, I tried it on Bromite (yes I know it's not developed anymore): using the add home shortcut for 0.17.4 lemmy.world just indeed adds a browser shortcut. With 0.18 instances, the shortcuts make Bromite act like proper PWAs without the address bar etc. But not crashing.
Also worth noting that PWAs with Firefox are very slow make the phone go extremely hot, you might probably want to immediately close them and just use the web UI inside the browser instead.
I keep the browser in permanent private mode because I hate how especially FF becomes bloated with cache and shit and then gets crashy, slow and memory hungry anyway. Also I basically hate all cookies now. Since FF on mobile is trying so hard to be even stupider than Chrome, it's just much easier for me to be permanent in private mode and have the handful of sites I visit often as PWAs. It's faster on average that way.
Goddamn I hate the modern web so much.