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Install site as an app with tabs functionality
AlexB Thanks for the feedback; we'll pass this on to our Apps team and let you know if they have any additional questions or insights.
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Please you have to implement this. I'd consider app functionality broken otherwise!
At the very least, a link from an "app" should open in it's own browser window sitting on top of the app in the z-order - not randomly pick a browser window you already have open and shoehorn a new tab onto it - it makes no sense.
I believe it picks up the last used browser window, the same as when you a link when using multiple edge profiesl, it can pick up the last opened (focused) profile or then you can select the default profile to use when opening links
Hi,
Thanks, yes can see that is what it does. I find it quite annoying - and my argument was that it doesn't feel very 'appy'.
Real apps that fall back on opening browser windows for things are annoying themselves - if we want a website to masquerade as an app itself, it would be nice if it either was tabbed for links opened in it's own domain; or at least if it has to open in another window, make its own browser window rather than picking up the latest browsing session window and using it.
By using the same active browser window to open its extra links, it breaks the app illusion, and mixes the two mental contexts together that the 'Web App' paradigm is designed to seperate.
