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Edge Chromium's URL bar randomly appear inside web app
I installed Netflix site as an app because for some reasons it runs better than its native app and everything work out for a while but after a few months or sometimes weeks Edge Chromium's URL bar randomly appear inside the app which is very frustration because it prevents the player from going into full screen mode while watching movies or TV Show and also it doesn't look good either. Also Worth noting that it doesn't appear all the time, It's only appeared once I'm searching or watching the show. I usually fix this by uninstall the apps and reinstall them back and it'd usually be working. But in heavy case I have to completely uninstall edge itself and reinstall it back just to fix one minor problem and after a few months, the problem is coming back again. It's a very weird behavior I try searching for solution but no one seems to have the problem except me.
Edge Version 84.0.522.40 (Official build) (64-bit)
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The bar you are talking about is not the address bar but is a bar that appears when you are on a different website from the website that you have installed as an app, that bar shows the name of the different website you are in.
I would recommend you to visit this conversation where I have given a solution to this problem which also appears on Amazon Prime Video with more details.
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I'm in Canada so I get redirected to a subdomain of Netlflix so as mentioned, the solution to Amazon Prime doesn't work.
This is relatively recent, been using Netflix as an edge app for a while now and this only started happening with the May 2020 update(?). Installing a VPN really isn't a solution for this, hopefully this can be resolved.
- I have successfully resolved this issue by installing TunnelBear, they offer 500mb free VPN and are Netflix compatible, after connecting to USA VPN I've logged out of the account and successfully landed on http://www.netflix.com installed it as an app, disconnected from the VPN and logged in. Now the bar no longer appears. Unfortunately until a better solution is presented this is one method that proves to be working. Hope it helps someone.
Thanks Hrcorl for the help your method works as I also got the same scenario as you also thank to TheShaunSaw for the explanation now I know how this whole thing works. Maybe in the future we can have the ability to install app by manually typing the URL address in, instead of limited to on site visit.
outtamahway I was going to suggest a VPN solution, but I don't want to suggest that all of our customers have to do that :-). I'm glad you were willing to and that it worked for you; we are brainstorming different ways to solve this problem so that all of our users stay safe, know what domain they are on, and are able to enjoy sites like Netflix as "apps".
-John
Hi there, you are welcome to the Microsoft Edge Insider Hub!
The bar you are talking about is not the address bar but is a bar that appears when you are on a different website from the website that you have installed as an app, that bar shows the name of the different website you are in.
I would recommend you to visit this conversation where I have given a solution to this problem which also appears on Amazon Prime Video with more details.TheShaunSaw we have a similar problem but found no solution for this.
We install the pages as app without a webapp.manifest because we need Get-Params for app installation like:
https://svr-oratst.schueller.de:8443/lvs_web/main?lvsstation=H2_ANSICHT&workstation=PC-IT31
In Google Chrome this works just fine, but in Edge Chromium the AppInfo bar is displayed every time we are on a different page. Is there a way to manually disable this bar?
In that case, I am tagging johnjansen, Microsoft Engineer working on Microsoft Edge.
- It does not work for netflix since you can't access clean url http://www.netflix.com always redirects you to /browse if logged in or /uk /us or whatever your country is if logged out. In order for the url bar to stop appearing you need to have that exact url installed as an app, in netflix case they have http://www.netflix.com/browse for browsing or http://www.netflix.com/watch for watching, since you can't access the netflix site without the extension on url it is impossible to avoid the address bar. Unless Microsoft adds a feature to enable installed app url edit or Netflix decides to make http://www.netflix.com accessible for everyone regardless of the region(which will never happen) we are scr*wed.
Hrcorl Just switch to google chrome where you can just do this:
1. ine tab1 open the apps tab: chrome://apps/2. in tab2, open the site you want to turn into a tab
3. from tab2 highlight, copy, the most common part of the url
4. drag to tab1, drop it when the cursor gets the + sign
5. right click it, set open as window, and also create shortcuts.
bam done.
You can't do this in Edge, because while it does have the `chrome://apps/` url, Edges version of this page is not drop sensitive. So the only way you can add "pwa apps" to edge is via the provided controls the url if the site exposes all the right meta tags and files.
honestly johnjansen you should just mimic how google chrome behaves with `chrome://apps/`.
