Overview


A Progressive Web App (PWA) is an app created using web platform technologies that provides a user experience similar to that of a platform-specific app. 


Authentic8 provides a PWA app shortcut for its Silo web client. To download and create a Silo Web client shortcut, we have launched a separate website: https://get.a8silo.com/launch

 

Follow these steps for Chrome/Edge (Chromium-based browsers):


 

  • Once you click on install it, you will see a Silo Cloud Browser shortcut on the user's desktop.
    • Please note that during the initial installation, there might be an issue where a second pop-up window opens if installed from the base page (get.a8silo.com). However, this works correctly on the second run. To avoid this, if you open the launch button first (which opens a pop-up window) and then install the PWA, it will work as expected on the first run.


Follow these steps for Firefox:

  • Firefox requires a pwa extension in order to install and manage the PWA Web apps such as Silo Cloud Browser.
    • One of the Firefox extensions that can manage PWA web apps is the Progressive Web Apps extension. Please keep in mind that this extension requires additional local system installation.
  • Once the Firefox extension is installed, navigate to https://get.a8silo.com/launch, and you will be able to download the Silo Cloud Browser shortcut, as shown above.


Follow these steps for Safari (macOS):

  • This functionality is only supported in macOS Sonoma and later.
  • Navigate to https://get.a8silo.com/launch
  • Click on File and then Click on Add to Dock Option.






  • A Silo Cloud Browser Shortcut will be created in the Dock menu, as shown below.




Silo provides custom keyboard shortcut options for both the install client and the web client. For more details, please refer to the Silo Keyboard Shortcuts support article.



Additional Notes  

Please contact Support if you have any additional questions and/or require further information.