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Copper Contributor

Apr 16, 2019

Opening new page in Apps

I have an app set up to run my companie's intranet site. The problem is that when I make an invoice and want to print it, the link opens a new page with a printable version of the invoice. In the ...

Former Employee

Apr 16, 2019

Is the app a UWP application or a Win32 application Cromi? What was the behavior before you installed the preview version of Edge?

Cromi
Copper Contributor
Apr 16, 2019
Elliot Kirk

It's the apps feature used in the preview versions of Edge (menu -> Apps). On non-preview Edge I was using pinned shortcuts. After trying the apps feature, I liked the cleaner look without adding the extra UI elements (tabs, menus, address bar, etc.). It's just jarring when you click a link that opens a new window and have the browser with full UI open instead of a seperate app style window.
- johnjansen
  Former Employee
  Apr 17, 2019
  Good morning, Cromi, thanks for sending feedback. Have you checked out the edge://flags page? If you filter the view of flags to PWA, you can enable this feature via edge://flags/#enable-desktop-pwas-stay-in-window
  
  Looking forward to see feedback on that... obviously, it's experimental :-)
  
  -John
  - Cromi
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 17, 2019
    johnjansen
    
    Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunatly that didn't solve my problem of links opening the browser, instead of another app window. If it helps, the link style I'm using is a href="link" target="_blank". I will keep trying when a new update is made available in the Canary branch.

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