chrome-ssb-osx vs nativefier

chrome-ssb-osx

Simple script for making Chrome-based SSBs (site specific browsers) (by lhl)

Suggest topics

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

nativefier

Make any web page a desktop application (by jiahaog)

NodeJS Electron Linux Windows MacOS desktop-application

DISCONTINUED

Suggest alternative

Edit details

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

www.influxdata.com

featured

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

www.saashub.com

featured

chrome-ssb-osx		nativefier
	Project
1	Mentions	105
146	Stars	34,314
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.1
over 8 years ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
Shell	Language	TypeScript
-	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

chrome-ssb-osx

Posts with mentions or reviews of chrome-ssb-osx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-17.

I made a CLI tool to wrap any website into a single executable AppImage.
4 projects | /r/linux | 17 Feb 2021

This could literally be implemented by a bash script on linux AND mac and use Chrome OR Firefox for a footprint of under two megabytes by creating wrappers with icons that start the browser in ssb mode, like this for example (no endorsement, just an illustration of the idea) : https://github.com/lhl/chrome-ssb-osx

nativefier

Posts with mentions or reviews of nativefier. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-17.

Nativefier Is Unmaintained
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2023
Slack sucks on Dex. Any tools like Nativefier for android to package the desktop website into an electron app?
2 projects | /r/SamsungDex | 17 Aug 2023
Web Environment Integrity API
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023

Oh by "Web Environment" you mean "my machine" lol!
I already got caught by this - a https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier app wrapping Youtube Music doesn't work, because Google detects somehow that you are not using a trusted browser and refuses to serve.
How to "install" google docs/sheets etc?
1 project | /r/MacOS | 25 Jun 2023
What is the most efficient way to run PWA (Progressive Web Apps), there are many browsers that do it (Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, Brave, Edge), which one will be the lightest and less resource usage in a Debian or Fedora? Are there other options apart from the browsers?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 10 Jun 2023

AFAIK there's only nativefier and peppermintos' ice.
Create clean web apps for macOS
1 project | /r/MacOS | 8 Jun 2023

Install Nativefier from Terminal using the command npm install -g nativefier
Nativefier – Make any web page a desktop application
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2023
Any FOSS Site-specific browser?
4 projects | /r/opensource | 10 May 2023

Something like nativefier perhaps?
Can I download Youtube (WebAPP) with Firefox? Or do I need Google Chrome/Chromium?
3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 7 May 2023

It's still not quite the same as Chromium webapps, which are just isolated windows in the same core process -- FFPWA spins up entire other instances of Firefox -- and in effect operates more like Nativefier (with Firefox instead of Electron/Chromium)
Which Browser Do You Use For PWA (Progressive Web App)?
2 projects | /r/browsers | 7 Apr 2023

is Electron considered a browser? cuz Nativefier is what i use

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chrome-ssb-osx and nativefier you can also consider the following projects:

epichrome - An application and Chrome extension for creating web-based applications that work like standalone Mac apps.

teams-for-linux - Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client

FirefoxPWA - A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox]

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

custom-electron-titlebar - Custom electon title bar inpire on VS Code title bar

firenvim - Embed Neovim in Chrome, Firefox & others.

gmail-desktop - :postbox: Nifty Gmail desktop app for macOS, Linux & Windows

brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

alephium-wallet - [Moved to: https://github.com/alephium/desktop-wallet]

EdgeDeflector - A tiny helper application to force Windows 10 to use your preferred web browser instead of ignoring the setting to promote Microsoft Edge. Only runs for a microsecond when needed.

notion-repackaged - notion executables with the notion-enhancer embedded & a vanilla port of the official app to linux