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HotCakeX
Apr 21, 2020MVP
New Feature in Edge Canary Version 84.0.492.0 - install sites as share target for the whole Windows
This newly added flag: Enable Share Targets Enables installed web apps to register for and receive Share requests from the Windows shell. Requires the Web App Identity Proxy functionality to be ...
HotCakeX
Apr 23, 2020MVP
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Thank you!
yes I always have feedback
but this time it's more of a temporary problem I hope because it's too obvious so I think developers should already know that. so the feature is implemented but it doesn't quite work yet.
- Only the websites that Edge itself suggests to be installed as an app ( the plus sign in the address bar) appear in the Share targets. only few sites are suggested that way by Edge, including Twitter and Outlook and Google photos.
- when choosing Twitter as a share target from any program on Windows 10, 2 windows are opened. one is a completely white window with no content in it and the other one is the Twitter website itself opened in the PWA UI. and it doesn't do anything, just loads the home page.
bradavon
Sep 09, 2020Brass Contributor
HotCakeX It's not working for me on Edge 85.0.564.44 Stable?
Both Google Photos and Google Maps are PWAs (the Plus Symbol). Neither appear in the Share window.
- HotCakeXSep 14, 2020MVPGoogle maps? you can't share anything in Google maps.
also Google photos might not be a good share target.
try Twitter, I did and it worked.- bradavonSep 14, 2020Brass Contributor
Oh yeah thanks, that works.
Yeah true I suppose Google Maps wouldn't work and Google Photos isn't a good share target.
Annoying it has to be a PWA. I'd love to be able to use it with Facebook Messenger, Google Calendar, Skype, Teams and WhatsApp.
- HotCakeXSep 14, 2020MVPWell you can add all of them as PWA too. websites you mentioned are actually built like a web app. you can uninstall the UWP version of them (if any) and use the PWA instead.