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Copper Contributor

Jul 18, 2020

Solved

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
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.

Hrcorl

Copper Contributor

Jul 22, 2020

It does not work for netflix since you can't access clean url 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 www.netflix.com/browse for browsing or 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 www.netflix.com accessible for everyone regardless of the region(which will never happen) we are scr*wed.

zeno_at_reckon

Copper Contributor

Jan 19, 2023

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/`.

johnjansen
Former Employee
Jan 20, 2023
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