Safari's "Add to Dock"

[VitoBotta]

I am testing Safari again now as I do every few months to see if it's better than what I am using at the moment, and I am blown away by the "Add to Dock" feature. Will all the other browsers the app windows get closed when you close the browser, but not with Safari!!! When did this change?

 

[galad]

That Safari function was introduced in macOS 14. It creates small separate apps that will launch directly to the website you want.

 

[VitoBotta]

That Safari function was introduced in macOS 14. It creates small separate apps that will launch directly to the website you want.

I love it! I hope Safari doesn't disappoint me again for other stuff because I really like this feature.

 

[bogdanw]

Apple's support pages:
Turn a website into an app in Safari on Mac
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/ibrw9e991864/
Use Safari web apps on Mac
https://support.apple.com/104996

 

[MacGizmo]

I wish it worked with multiple accounts for the same site. For instance, if you have two Gmail accounts and you set up two of these Safari Dock apps (one for each email address), they will only work with whichever the last Gmail account you logged in under was. Same goes for Twitter, etc.

I suspect this is because this is doing nothing but opening a webpage using Safari and displaying it within its own app wrapper. You can get around this in Safari by opening two separate tabs with one Gmail account logged in for each tab. But these Dock apps only work with one window/tab at a time.

 

[bogdanw]

I wish it worked with multiple accounts for the same site. For instance, if you have two Gmail accounts and you set up two of these Safari Dock apps (one for each email address), they will only work with whichever the last Gmail account you logged in under was. Same goes for Twitter, etc.

I suspect this is because this is doing nothing but opening a webpage using Safari and displaying it within its own app wrapper. You can get around this in Safari by opening two separate tabs with one Gmail account logged in for each tab. But these Dock apps only work with one window/tab at a time.

Of course they work, each web app has a separate cookies database.
find ~/ -name "Cookies.binarycookies"
I manage two X accounts, I saved one web app as Twitter and the other one as X.

 

[MacGizmo]

Doesn't work for me. If I launch one of the Gmail apps named (lets call it) Gmail A it works as expected. But when I launch Gmail B, it logs in to Gmail A account. I can then switch to my Gmail B account, but then when I launch Gmail A again, it now logs into Gmail B.

Same thing with Twitter, Facebook, and every other service where I have two different logins.

 

[bogdanw]

Doesn't work for me. If I launch one of the Gmail apps named (lets call it) Gmail A it works as expected. But when I launch Gmail B, it logs in to Gmail A account. I can then switch to my Gmail B account, but then when I launch Gmail A again, it now logs into Gmail B.

Same thing with Twitter, Facebook, and every other service where I have two different logins.

That is not the normal behavior.
Apple: "What you do in a web app stays in the web app." https://support.apple.com/en-us/104996

Do you use a passwords manager, Autofill or iCloud Keychain?

Autofill https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/ibrwf71ba236/mac
iCloud Keychain https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh43699/mac