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Lemmy Pro-tip for Chrome Users on Android

Need an app better than Jerboa? Go to Beehaw as normal in Chrome, then click the ... menu on the top right of Chrome. Look down and you'll see "Install App". (Edit: this option is normally not there for 99.9% of websites, I'm not taking about Add To Home Page) If you've got a free spot in your launcher a Lemmy icon will show up, otherwise look in your app drawer thing or whatever new apps show up.

This tech is called a "progressive web app" and it's not just a shortcut, because it then behaves like you'd expect an app to behave like.

Anyway, give it a try. A few other sites have this feature, but it's fairly rare and unfortunately underutilized.

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Firefox for Android also has this feature for anyone not using Chrome

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I've been using Jerboa but just tried this and it works pretty well too!

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lemmy.world

That's a good idea! Very neat. Also, Jerboa just released a new update that's very good. But it's not on the play store yet I don't think. I got it from gethub.

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I think this worked with safari on iPhone as well. Thanks for the tip.

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Following up. I got this to work by manually & painfully typing in my credentials like a savage. Apparently it doesn't like it when I paste from my password manager.

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