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Edge Chromium's URL bar randomly appear inside web app
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.
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.
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/`.
zeno_at_reckon that is a good feature request. I wasn't aware Chrome did that. Thanks.
In Edge, we do have the feature that allows you to install any site this way: if you click on "Settings and More" then "Apps" then "Install this site as an app" that will also install it to open in its own window. Alternatively, depending on what you really want to have happen, you can also click on "Settings and More" then "More tools" then "Pin to Taskbar".
-John
As you did not understand my earlier post or my earlier post was not clear, I am showing you a reply which was given by Microsoft Engineer johnjansen who replied to this conversation which is related to Netflix and describes the same issue you are facing. The reply is as follows:
This has to do with the scope of the PWA. You'll notice that when you clicked to install the PWA you were probably on a screen like netflix.com/browse. But when you are in the PWA and click to watch a video, that redirects to netflix.com/watch, which is technically 'out of scope' for the PWA and causes that black bar across the top to show up.
The easiest workaround should be to simply log out of netflix in the browser so the URL is back to just the netflix.com url and install from there. That way the scope is the entire domain rather than just /browse.
-John
TheShaunSaw Thank you for your suggestion, but it doesn't work for https://music.apple.com/. It redirects me to https://music.apple.com/us/browse regardless whether I have logged in or not. Do you have a solution for such condition?
- Sorry, I did and it does not solve an issue at least for non US citizens I suppose. Here in europe on login screen my url goes http://www.netflix.com/uk
After logging in, each and every other instance of url is not built upon /uk, rather the universal one http://www.netflix.com/browse so the url bar appears everywhere because of the missing /uk part of the url
In that said I cannot access any universal domain that would work on the entire netflix experience, meaning I cannot access pure http://www.netflix.com url without redirection to /uk or /browse depends of being or not being logged in.Hrcorl Same here (Japan), and pretty much everywhere else outside the USA.
For myself, I solved it using a VPN (which others have suggested).
I have a top tier paid one, but there are plenty of free ones (including Opera's browser's built-in one) which should work for this "one time setting".
I agree with others though, into that shouldn't be something to recommend to just "everyone", and that this is an issue because "Netflix" is pretty much the first web anyone is going to try installing as an App (since it works so much better than the Native Windows App...).
Daniel
