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Chris Trottier

Turn @elk into a Windows app!

When logging in from a Chromium-based browser, there will be a prompt to install @elk.

If you click that button, it will transform @elk into a standalone Windows app with its own icon on the desktop and Start menu.

It works very well!

@fediversenews

8 comments
Chris Trottier

@wtwagg @elk @fediversenews If it makes you feel better, I also use macOS and various flavours of Linux.

Patrick V. πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­

@atomicpoet @elk @fediversenews You can do that trick with most websites BTW. You can even do it with the #Mastodon web UI. It’s the main way I use mastodon on my laptop.
Mind you: it’s still a web page. You just don’t have all the menus, buttons and toolbars of the browser there.

Glencoe

@atomicpoet @elk @fediversenews Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, good choice πŸ‘

Funky Buddha

@atomicpoet @elk @fediversenews I wish Firefox would support that. Not sure what’s wrong with them

Danish

@atomicpoet @elk @fediversenews You can also turn it into a web app on iOS in Safari.

Isaac Rabinovitch

@atomicpoet @elk @fediversenews It does work well – I have it on my laptop. But I never use it. I'm used to accessing Elk through elk.zone, and I'm not seeing any incentive to change that. Perhaps you can provide one?

Mike Fraser :Jets: :flag:

@atomicpoet @elk @fediversenews It's a PWA ( progressive web app). Many of the browser based clients are including the Mastodon web app and @phanpy . You can install them from the chrome menu to the windows, iOS, or Android desktop. More here: web.dev/what-are-pwas/

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