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Install Site as App / Remove option 'Open in Microsoft Edge'
It is a pretty cool thing to make a website as an application, however it is not so cool to leave the escape possibility by giving the user option to open the site in Edge from this application (The S...
"when users are supposed to be able only to use a limited number of websites and are not supposed to use any web browsers as such. "
there are group policies to handle this.
it's called URLAllowlist
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#urlallowlist
there are group policies to handle this.
it's called URLAllowlist
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#urlallowlist
HotCakeX I know. However, a) one of the ideas (if not the main one) of running a website as app is to provide users with an uncluttered GUI, a sort of browser kiosk mode which for some strange reason has an 'escape' left behind, b) as I wrote before, this 'escape' has no added value and prevents website as app to be used as kiosk application.
- Well, you could suggest it to add a gpo to show/hide that button, but that never helps a user break free and access unauthorized websites.
that button only offers users to experience a web page in a different view, maybe for example if the original PWA mode has some kind of problem showing that web page, or the user needs tabs to do multitasking.