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AZia_atsgnet
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Sep 13, 2025

[Wayland] PWAs no longer appear as separate app windows — all group under main Edge icon

Hi, Since around 2025-09-07 to 2025-09-10, I’ve noticed that on GNOME (Wayland) all installed PWAs (even across different profiles) now appear grouped under the main Edge browser icon in the GNOME S...
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StevePOI
Copper Contributor
Oct 10, 2025

Hello!

Update:

With microsoft-edge-stable.x86_64 141.0.3537.71-1 it was possible for me to use the information of ArloGilbert​ and get separate windows and the icons have a dot after starting the PWAs.

What I had to do was to find out the StartupWMClass with lg and correct the "crx__*" Entry with the correct one, which is similiar to the Icon String, but with an additional "_":

Icon=msedge-abcdef-default
StartupWMClass=msedge-_abcdef-default

Only problem with MS Edge left for me at the moment is the instant crash of all Edge processes when opening the "save as" Dialog in the downloads section, but I´ll open a separate issue for that!

Thanks!

With kind regards,

Steve

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m8yng
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Oct 15, 2025

not ideal but if anyone don't want to deal with the .desktop files, what i did is hold back to older version:

sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable=139.0.3405.125-1
sudo apt-mark hold microsoft-edge-stable
# and if it got fixed in the future version: sudo apt-mark unhold microsoft-edge-stable

 

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