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outtamahway
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Jul 18, 2020

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 ra...
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  • TheShaunSaw's avatar
    TheShaunSaw
    Jul 19, 2020

    outtamahway 

    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.

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Hrcorl
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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 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.
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outtamahway
Copper Contributor
Jul 22, 2020

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.

  • johnjansen's avatar
    johnjansen
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    Jul 22, 2020

    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

    • eguif's avatar
      eguif
      Steel Contributor
      Jul 22, 2020

      Hello johnjansen 

      Well at least there could be a way to edit a pwa's url. This way we could put only the root url

    • outtamahway's avatar
      outtamahway
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 22, 2020

      johnjansen This could be a workaround on some sites but some other sites like deezer is having /us as their default homepage so even after using the vpn, it won't prevent the site from redirect to /us and like Hrcorl suggested each and every other instance of url is not built upon /us which make the bar appears everywhere because of the missing /us part of the url. But as long as Netflix works, I'd say I'm satisfy now but I hope to see more better and permanent solution in the future 🙂

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