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macOS PWA apps don't show up as applications in Activity Monitor #498

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cgioia opened this issue May 11, 2024 · 0 comments
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macOS PWA apps don't show up as applications in Activity Monitor #498

cgioia opened this issue May 11, 2024 · 0 comments
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cgioia commented May 11, 2024

Description

PWAs on macOS differ from other applications in how they show up in Activity Monitor.app. Other apps (and even Safari Web Apps) get listed as a full "Application" so that their energy usage can be monitored, and so their hierarchy of processes is kept sorted correctly. Firefox PWAs do not get this "Application" listing.

This prevents the application from showing up in the Energy tab when sorted by Applications, and it also causes issues for apps like iStat Menus, which end up showing loader as the process rather than the application with the correct name/icon.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create and run a Firefox PWA
  2. Open Activity Monitor.app from Utilities
  3. Go to the Energy tab, then View -> Applications in the last 12 hours
  4. Observe that the Firefox PWA does not get listed

Additional Information

I think this is related to the fact that other apps have an application bundle at the top of the process hierarchy. Firefox PWAs have the loader process as the top level (i.e., directly beneath launchd).

Environment

  • Operating system: macOS 14.4.1
  • System architecture: Apple Silicon
  • Installation method: Homebrew
  • PWAsForFirefox extension version: 2.12.0
  • PWAsForFirefox native version: 2.12.0
  • PWAsForFirefox runtime version: 125.0.3
  • Firefox version: 125.0.3
@cgioia cgioia added the bug Something isn't working label May 11, 2024
@filips123 filips123 moved this to To Do in PWAsForFirefox May 25, 2024
@filips123 filips123 added the help wanted Extra attention is needed label May 25, 2024
@filips123 filips123 added help wanted Extra attention is needed and removed help wanted Extra attention is needed labels Sep 28, 2024
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