Firefox - App shortcuts like Chrome?

[seedubya]

I use an app called IQTell for managing my email \ tasks etc. It's fantastic and I really love it. In Chrome I can create an app shortcut - Add to Taskbar - so that it launches separately to other browser windows, I can give it an icon etc. etc.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do the same or similar in Firefox. Does anyone else have a clue?

 

[Your PCMD]

Thats because IQTell has a chrome extension. It doesnt support Firefox. Best to contact IQTell about that.

 

[seedubya]

Thats because IQTell has a chrome extension. It doesnt support Firefox. Best to contact IQTell about that.

Em, maybe not. I may not have explained the issue correctly. This isn't anything to do with Firefox extensions vs. Chrome extensions.
Chrome has the ability to "appify" any web page using Chrome Menu | More Tools | Add to Desktop. It's like an enhanced desktop shortcut. Opens in a separate process sans menus etc. I'm looking for the same functionality for Firefox. Mozilla Prism used to do this but has been discontinued. I think it can be done using the appropriate launch switches but can't find documentation (possibly via js). The IQTell plugin is just a webclipper really there is no plugin (TIKO) for the full app.

 

[Your PCMD]

I know that in Firefox, if you have IQTell in your bookmark, you can right click on the Firefox icon and it will list your frequent pages, you can then highlight the link and pin it. Like the image:

 

[trevm999]

I thought Chrome doesn't do this anymore either? At least I've never been able to find it anymore

 

[seedubya]

Chrome has the ability to "appify" any web page using Chrome Menu | More Tools | Add to Desktop.

I just tried it with the Autotask website and it works perfectly

 

[trevm999]

You're right it is there on my Windows too, not on Mac though

I think you can call Firefox to launch in kiosk mode from the desktop shortcut, I've never done it though

 

[fencepost]

This is probably not really possible with Firefox as it is since it's all a single process. Once they finish the switch to multi-process (so a launch like this could run separately) it becomes more likely.